The Aftermath Case

1) Audience: What did you learn about your audience as you wrote about your experience or experiences? I learned to keep the audience intrigued. Give them something they don't want to stop reading. Make it as interesting as possible and very detailed.

2) Purpose: How successfully do you feel you fulfilled your purpose? Why? I feel very successful. I believe I was very detailed and made it so that the readers could imagine themselves there with me. My whole purpose was to get the point across and allow readers to feel the emotions I felt as well.

3) Rhetorical situation: What was your rhetorical situation? How have you responded to the rhetorical situation? I believe it was when I was describing the emotional parts of my experience. I believe we all learn from the different experiences that happen good or bad.

4) Context, medium, and genre: What context were you writing in? What medium and genre did you choose, and how did those decisions affect your writing? I wrote in the first person. I think I choose something to write about that all adult audience could read and relate to. It is a life experience that I believe most people go through, maybe not in the same way but dealing with the same emotions.

Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing

1) Learning/inquiry: What did you discover about writing about experiences while you were working on this assignment? What did you discover about yourself? About your experiences? I learned that remembering the smallest details of a personal experience is very affective. I discovered that writing is the best way for you to say things and register what your saying or how your feeling at that moment or when that experienced happened. I feel its an easier way to express suppressed feelings.

2) Responsibility: How did you fulfill your responsibility to your readers? To the people you wrote about? By giving very detailed situations and keeping the reader very involved. I explained all the people in my essay and what role they played in the experience from my point of view. I would say I was one of the main people in the essay.

3) Reading and research: Did you rely on your memories, or did you conduct additional research for this assignment? If so, what sources did you consult? How did you use them? I just relied on my memories. This experience was one of the most memorable experiences of my life so it stays fresh on my mind.

Writing Processes for Sharing Experiences

1) Invention: What invention strategies were most useful to you? To keep the readers on there tip toes. Making sure to draw them in but not spoiling thsue main events.

2) Organizing your ideas and details: What organization did you use? How successful was it? I started out by the putting the time frame and have the readers visualize the place that it happened.

3) Revising: What one revision did you make that you