Blog 11 - Kelly Garzon

 “Defining the rhetorical situation requires assessing the writer’s relationship to the subject and the reader” (192). 


For a writing assignment to be effective, it must account the students’ interest in and understanding of the subject, the purpose or aim of the composition, the audience, a role for the student to take with respect to the subject and audience, and the form of discourse (which needn’t always be an essay) (194). Teachers must vary the rhetorical situations to give students practice writing different modes for different audiences.


This chapter addresses the idea of standardized testing with writing, emphasizing that multiple-choice tests on grammatical elements do not test writing skills. If a teacher wants to evaluate writing skills, the students must write. I like this because the student has to be interactive and interact with their writing. Many students aren't good test-takers and given they will be writing for the rest of their lives, one can assume it is practical for students to write rather than fill in bubbles. 

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