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
Context
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Mark Sutton
This episode focuses on context, the element of rhetorical situation that includes the factors going on in the world that can impact our text. In particular, we'll focus on time, place, community, and culture.
Transcript available through this link.
Additional Resources:
- Purdue OWL's "Setting."
- "Discourse Community" from College Composition and Communication (Note: The link leads to a pdf file.)
- Dan Melzer's "Understanding Discourse Communities" from Writing Spaces (Note: The link leads to a pdf copy of the essay.)
- Wikipedia "High-context and low-context cultures."
- Silva Rhetoricae's "Kairos" (Note: Kairos is a rhetorical term meaning the appropriateness of a piece of communication. Context affects appropriateness.)
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