Need this for a discussion Charles Bazerman is Professor and Chair...

Need this for a discussion

Charles Bazerman is Professor and Chair of the Department of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara.   He wrote a textbook, The Informed Writer.  We will be using parts of his book throughout our class.

This discussion thread draws from chapter 1 of the book. Please click here to access chapter 1.

On page 3, Bazerman mentions the relationships between writing and speaking and between writing and reading.  "Reading and writing go hand in hand," he notes.  

On page 4, Bazerman discusses the distinctions between writing and speaking.  He also describes how tone and audience are influenced differently in both writing and speaking.

On page 5, he mentions the art of “listening,” both for a speaker and for a writer.

On page 5, he describes a bicycle accident.  If you have a bicycle accident as he describes on this page, you may later write three email messages—one to your mother, one to your friend, and one to the insurance company. He describes these three audiences and how the letters to each will be different because the audiences are distinct and, therefore, the purposes are different.

Consider any piece of writing you have completed in the past six months— for school, for work, for a situation in your community, or some other context.  Who was the audience, and how did the audience affect how you approached this piece of writing?

Please provide me a background or source you was referring from and few simple sentences based on the Chapter 1

Task: Please write one paragraph of 5-6 sentences or so in your response.  Please draw upon analysis from Chapter 1 from Bazerman (linked above) and from Chapter 1 of Writing for Success (p. 4).  Refer specifically to the advice in these sources as you construct your paragraph.

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WRITING
riting involves other people. You respond to and build on other people’s statements;
you then write for other people to read. As a reader and a writer, you converse with
others over the written page. To converse effectively you need to know what is on the
other people’s minds, how you want to affect other people, and how you plan to achieve that
effect. Thus writing well requires that you understand the writing situation, grasp the particular
writing problem, and carefully plan your writing strategy.
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