I have written in many genres during the past week including texting my sister about her soccer game, writing a letter to my grandma updating her on current events at my house, and sending an email to my high school counselor thanking her for the time she has put in with me.
With regards to texting my sister about her soccer game, the genre was pretty relaxed as my purpose was solely to inform her that I would be picking her up. Since the medium was via text, the design for this context included a smiley face to represent my happiness to be picking her up.
While I wrote the letter to my grandma, I put a lot of time and effort into choosing and appropriate tone. My purpose was to inform her about recent events that had occurred at my house with my immediate family, so this was also my motivation for writing. Finally, writing the email to my counselor included a tone of gratitude as I conveyed through recognizing her time that she has dedicated to helping me plan my success through college. In the first two examples of writing, the audience was fairly casual so the tone and purpose were more relaxed, while the last example required a more professional tone and stance. I feel that through this English class I will better understand the vocabulary I have read about in the textbook.
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