Rhetoric and Process for Composing

One most important parts after reading the Rhetoric and Process for Composing in the DK Handbook are that your readers are not 'full, real people". I think this is a very important concept to understand for whomever is composing. In the book it used the example that when talking to your mother you are only acknowledging the mother portion of her ad not all of her life roles. A second important thing I noted was that where the reader is actually reading the paper has an influence on how your message is interpreted. A question in the book about this topic is how a teacher may view a paper at home, how them may view what you are trying to convey. I think grading an assignment for many teachers may vary depending on where it is they are doing the evaluation. For example, if they are grading in an office setting they may be looking just at the facts of if the student understood the assignment and if the criteria is there. However if it were to be graded in the teacher home, the teacher being more relaxed may view the same paper differently. They may tune into different ideas that they may have not noticed while in the office strictly because they were only looking for the hard facts. Lastly an idea that stood out to me was the imaging purpose portion. It stated that "if you picture for yourself exactly the response you hope the text you are composing brings about, you will be more likely to compose texts that appeal in concrete and engaging ways". I think this is a great idea to think about while writing something that you want a specific response to. If you are writing something scientific you are going to compose it much differently with just the facts. Where as, if you were writing about an emotion, you are going to choose a different approach to the writing so your audience is feeling what you are composing.