Monday, August 31, 2015

1st Major Writing Assignment

The purpose of my first writing assignment will be to provide my audience, high school students, with what types of writing are used in the field of finance as well as the importance of the writings in my field.  The genre for my first assignment will be an informational report presenting my findings of the writing in the finance field.   The stance in which I will take when writing my paper will be serious so they understand the importance of writing in the finance field but not to serious that they don’t retain any information from the report. 

Thursday, August 27, 2015

High school assignment evaluation

               
Braden Blake
Rhetoric 1030
8/26/2015




For this assignment I choose an essay I wrote in high school for a Tippie college of business scholarship.  So the genre was essay but also informational about myself as well.  When writing this essay a little over a year ago I had a rather simple purpose and that was to get scholarship to help pay for college.  A deeper purpose of my essay was to impress the scholarship committee and show them the potential I had to succeed.  I think this section of my essay shows what I want to do with my degree and shares a little bit about my interests “I plan to pursue a career in a stock/financial related area in a position where I can use my passion to help others.” The audience for my essay was the scholarship committee.  The stance of my essay was passionate because I had to sell myself to the committee.  One example of how I tried to sell myself as why a business degree interested me was: “The stock market is a passion of mine and my success investing money has led me to choose finance as a major.”  The media for this piece of writing was print so I needed to show my creativity through the design and the layout of the paper because unlike a speech they had to judge their opinions strictly of text.

Tuesday, August 25, 2015