Ch. 5 Summary

In chapter 5 I learned more about writing to explore. In rhetorical knowledge they talk about how you should consider how exploration will help you gain better understanding, also how you can help your readers better understand the topic you are writing about and why you want them to see this understanding. Deciding the medium or genre will help you better communicate your particular exploration to your audience. There are also certain considerations you want to think about when you are writing to explore. These considerations are audience, purpose, voice, tone, point of view, and context, medium, and genre. When writing a exploratory paper in college your audience will be your professor, you, and your fellow classmates. The purpose of these types of papers is to explore the different aspects of your topic good enough to where you get a better understanding of the topic and what you believe about the topic. When you are exploring your topic you should be open to different points of view on your topic, the point of view you take should be one of questioning. The tone you can use in your writing can range from humorous to serious. There are certain qualties to exploratory writings they are focus on a concept or question which means that you should ask an open-ended question that can set a groundwork for a solution or to redefine the concept. An inquisitive spirit where you ask questions you want to find the answers to and that will lead you to more questions. Also you should have a consideration of the range of perspectives in a subject where you are able to see your topic from different views and consider the positive and negative sides. Expansive coverage of a subject is to make a case and persuade you reader of something.
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My reaction to this reading is that it helped me better understand what writing to explore is. They explained everything in great depth and put it in ways that I could understand.