Aristotle's Equation

Purpose?
Audience?

We start here.

Audience + Purpose + Genre = Style (how it looks) and Content (what it says)

Look at p. 15 in Bedford and consider the equation for each. Which is more effective?

Now we look at your directions.

In your daybook, create a chart for each of the terms in the "equation" and your direction examples that you brought to class, like this:

MP3 Player:
Audience-
Purpose-
Genre-
Style-
Content-

After filling in your chart, think about the effectiveness of each of your examples. What specific choices in style and content work or do not work?

In groups you will compare the examples you brought to class. Create a list as a group of the characteristics of effective vs. ineffective directions. Record this in your daybook and then share with the class.

Homework:

1. Fill at least one page (one side) in your daybook describing a situation where you were frustrated by ineffective written directions. As you describe what happened, try to analyze what the specific problems were with those directions based on today's discussions.

2. TWFTD: rhetoric

3. Tomorrow the Lego project begins. This will be your first "short project," worth 4% of your grade.