CATeng102fall09

Genre Summary This website talks about genre in movies, but some of the explanations he gives are helpful for understanding genre. It also makes it easier to understand genre when you compare it in something easy and visual like movies. The definition of genre is a way of putting text into categories that share similar characteristics. It describes what makes up a genre which is situations and locations story and plots, characters and themes and values. These are known as generic signifers. How/why useful .This website is useful because its purpose is to help you understand genre. It has activites you can do to help you identify it easier. It has examples of the different types of genres there are and it matches them to famous movies. Overall, it makes it simple to understand genre by the use of movies. How/why credible This website is credible because it allows you to become a member of the site so that you can learn more. It properly lists titles by italicizing the titles. And it breaks down the elements of genre in an orderly fashion. Citation Jeremy Orlebar. (Thursday September 24, 2009). MediaEdu-resources-understanding, genre. In Understanding Genre. Retrieved November 7, 2009, from, http://media.edusites.co.uk/index.php/article/understanding-genre/.

Exigency Summary This website talks about the Exigency. "an imperfection marked by urgency; it is a defect, an obstacle, something waiting to be done, a thing which is other than it should be." This is a quote describing exigency from the book, Rhetorical Situation, by Lloyd Bitzer. Exigence is one of the three components that make up the "rhetorical situation". In other words exigency is and event that causes the need for rhetor. How/why useful This website is helpful because it also talks about the Rhetorical situation, audience, and constraints. It is useful because it provides references to a book which make it more credible. It is useful because everything is organized. How/why credible This website is credible because it is a .edu website. It also has quotes that refer to a book called Rhetorical Situation by Lloyd Bitzer. The way the topics are organized also make this site more credible. Citation K.Heenan@asu.edu. (Copyright Fall 2005). English 472: Rhetorical Studies, Fall 2005.' In The Rhetorical Situation. Retrieved November 7, 2009, from' http://www.public.asu.edu/~kheenan/courses/472/f05/bitzervatz.htm.

Research Strategies Summary This website is very helpful with research strategies. It talks about what research means. Research is about finding ideas and adding your own input. It is about finding information that helps you with your topic. It is important to get into focus and understand that there are strategies you can use for research. How/why helpful This website is very helpful because it describes how to effectively research to complete a term paper. It has everything organized and it is easy to navigate the site. How/why credible This website is credible because it is a .edu website. It has a lot of information and it provides graphs to better understand the material. It is also credible because it advises against copying and pasting. Citation Araby Greene. (Fall 1998, updated 22 April 2002). Library Research Strategy. In, Developing a Library Research Strategy. Retrieved November 5, 2009, from, http://bullpup.lib.unca.edu/library/lr/lr101/greene/res_strat.html.

Summary: Exigency is described as what made the author want to write something, what motivated him as far as if it was something sad, beautiful, terrible, life change anything that impacted the writer into writing a novel poem note or whatever they wanted. How and why is this resource useful? This is a very useful site in that in puts it in a form that shows you what each step actually is and it starts each section telling you what the definition for each one is ad along with that it refers it back to a example to show you exactly how it's used. How and why is this site credible? This site is credible by where it came from and also that its marked as a educational site Citation: written in 2006 by New Zealand's Tertiary Education Commission's e-learning Collaborative Development Fund (eCDF)

Summary: When I first read this website I didn't think that it was that useful but then I really thought about it ad for as little of info it covers it all. This site basically gives you the definition of author and also some examples. How and why is this resource useful? This site is useful because it tell the reader everything they need to know about author. How and why is this resource credible? The reason I picked this cite was because its credibility is fairly decent and I have used this site many times in the past and have not had any problems with it. Also the major ne it that it a .org site which mean a educational site. Citation: this website was last modified on 20 October 2009 by author unknown.

This site provided a bunch information pertaining to the assignment. Anyone else looking for info on any of the other terms that are required. Extra links and sites are provided for other info. This site is credible because it is built and written by Original content © 2008 by Andrew R. Cline, Ph.D.

I found that this web site gave the most direct explanation for the term genre. If I can understand what it means then I can put it to use.

I used this URL for researching strategies

After reding this power point and reveiwing the information provided. I found that it was easier to understand the rhetorical term "author". Althought the inforamtion did not have a certain author it was still help ful because it made all of the rhetorical terms basic and easy to understand. there fore i believe that this website is good and can provide good information.\ncreditable by:http://www.diigo.com/user/wesnells?domain=www.libarts.uco.edu

After reading this post,I found it rather enlightening. Initally when I thought of an audience, the dialogue was one sided. The speaker would attempt to get their point across while at the same time, keeping their audience captive with what they were saying. Allissa Quart seems to convey this message rather clearly and gives good pointers as to how to accomplish this.The article was written in May of 2008 and the authors credentials are unknown. Apparently rather fluent in journalism due to the writing prose.

Provides info on multiple terms and extra links for other info on seperate sites.credible by Copyright © 2009 Philip M. Parker, INSEAD

More info than needed and definitions for everything. Credible by Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization

The reason that I chose this particular article was due to the fact I was beginning to have issues finding the word exigency linked to Rhetorical Situation. This site does however explain the word and in turn it can then be used properly in context with a rhetorical situation. If you dont know what it means, then you can't use it.

This particular document explains how an author of a Rhetorical Situation needs to know what factors come into play when addressing an audience. It also goes on to explain as to what air the speech should take. And also how to deliver.

This document was presented in a very logical format. It gives various examples as to how to analyze a rhetorical situation. It also presents the information in a very easy to read format. That way the most use can be extracted from this document.

Goal Summary: This website isn't really a big website with that much information on it but it covered what I needed it to cover. And what it covers it goal, for goal it gives you a little brief definition that goal is what the world looks like after an achievement. How and why is this resource useful? This website like I said is short but covers goal very well in that with the definition it gives you examples on how it is used for instance one of the examples is they wanted to speak to people and recruit 300 students so what there goal was was to recruit 300 students. See it not only gives you a definition but it gives you examples to help you understand what goal is a little better. How and why is this resource credible? I found this site was very credible in that it is another educational website and it has all the information one needs and doesn't leave anything out. Citations: *

i was unable to find the citations on this webpage if anyone can help that would be great

Rhetorical Situations Summary: In reading the information found on this website I found that rhetorical situations is best described as features of audience, purpose, and exigency that create moments for a response. Basically in blatant terms it allows the reader to highlight or pull out the message the writer is trying to get across and why the writer wanted to make the statement in the first place or even who the author is or maybe the modality of the passage. How and why resource useful? This site is useful in many ways. First is that it gives the reader a great definition of what rhetorical situations is. Secondly the passage also give some sort of examples for what the definition is like, as I said above where it may tell you a little bit about the author or, what the goal is or maybe just what makes the writer want to write the passage. How and why is resource credible? The reason why I picked this website is not only because it had good information that I could use but it had great credibility on the site. The one major credibility is that it comes from an education website as you can tell the URL is .edu. Citation: * The Pennsylvania State University | Privacy and Legal Statements Contact the Composition Program | Last modified Aug 13, 2008