CLO 3:

“Negotiate your own writing goals and audience expectations regarding conventions of genre, medium, and rhetorical situation”

In every different assignment we touch up on a certain goal. For instance, in the memo we stressed the necessity of audience, purpose, and exigence. Before starting every major assignment, we also read a handful of sample assignments to get a feel as to how we ourselves would like to write our work. Our writing goals were based on our assignments and typically the goal would be to meet the conditions of the rubric which often specified the necessity of different genres. This also indicates the significance of the genre analysis we did for all the sample reports. They caused us to question the authors conventions of genre, medium, and rhetorical situations and in turn built a pattern in our heads directing us to best course of action for each different assignment. 

Figure 2: Example of genre analysis questions for technical description

These questions above are a perfect example of what I was referring to. These genre analysis questions serve as a guide and force us to refer ourselves to notes and PowerPoint slides that call out ineffective modes of writing in certain assignments