Comp Notes
Comp Notes is a podcast for college students in first-year writing courses. We'll cover the concepts you'll discuss in class, giving you a chance to reinforce or grow your understanding of them.
Comp Notes
Purpose
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Mark Sutton
This episode focuses on purpose, the element of rhetorical situation that defines our goals.
Transcript available through this link.
Additional Resources:
- Purdue OWL "Purposes"
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Writing Center's "Understanding the Assignment." I refer to this page in the episode, and I assign it to my students as an introduction to how to interpret an assignment sheet and determine the purpose of your text.
- Swathmore College's "Understanding Your Assignment"
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