Writer's Workshop Page 132

1. What are the purposes of your two Writing to Explore assignments?
2. Who is your audience for your I-Search project? Who is the audience for yourProfile of a Local Agency?
3. What is the rhetorical situation for your I-Search paper? What elements does it include? The Local agency profile?

1. The purposes for my two Writing to Explore assignments is to explore, in depth a particular topic. For example, my I-Search paper. I plan on choosing personal important issues posed by the presidental candidates. Once I have decided on the particular issues I want to explore, I plan on looking at both presidental candidates and analyzing where their particular stance is. For my other Writing to Explore assignment, I plan on focusing on a particular organization on my interest and exploring that organization.
2. The audience for my I-Search paper is myself, my classmates, my instruction and anyone else who in interesting in the particular issues I will be discussing throughout my I-Search paper. The audience for my Profile of a Local Agency Paper will be the same as the I-Search paper. I will be exploring an agency and my targeted audience will be the people who are interested in that particular agency.
3. The rhetorical situation in my paper is myself, the author, exploring two personally important issues in the 2008 election. I am doing this because I think that people should be informed about important issues that concern the environment such as noffshore drilling and global warming. The rhetorical situation in my Local Agency Profile is again myself, the author, exploring and writing about Habitat for Humanity. I am exploring this agency because I feel that people should be made aware of the local community projects put into place by Habitat for Humanity.

Invention Strategies

What are three invention strategies that you use? Why are invention strategies important? How can you incorporate invention strategies into your I-Search and Writing to Explore assignments? What revision strategies do you use? Why are these strategies important? How can you incorporate them into your work?

Three invention strategies I use is outlining my ideas, freewriting, and collaborating a list of information that I know about a particular topic. Invention strategies are important because its the first stage of writing and invention strategies also help to organize ideas already know. By organizing ideas already know about a particular topic, one is able to organize ideas that need to be ressearched better. I plan on incorporating invention strategies into my I-Search and writing to explore paper by using the strategies listed to help me organize my thoughts better. These strategies wil also help me to formulate questions that I have leading to further research, bettering my paper.

The revision strategies I use after I have written my first draft is peer review and having someone read my paper aloud. When someone writes a paper, they know the message they are trying to convey but sometimes that message does not come off in a clear, understandable form. Peer review greatly helps this. Through peer review, the writer can understand how their particular message is being conveyed and what can be done to improve the clairity.