Summary of interview and sources

Interview Summary:
So far I've had access and interviewed one professional,I have scheduled another interview for this coming Monday with a local cheer and gymnastic gym owner, Karen Mckinley. But the other person that I have already interviewed that I admire and have the up most respect for is my boss, Kirk Johnson, the owner of three local Bearno's in southern Indiana. He graduated and got his business degree from a small community college while working at Ford for several years, and a few years later invested in Bearno's. Most of his writings are made up of different kinds of marketing advertisements such as commercials, coupons, and all kinds of other nonacademic advertisements to help bring in money for his businesses. These are probably the most significant kinds of writing he does because without these he would not be able to keep his business running. Some other important types of nonacademic writing that he must produce frequently are various sets of instructions and rules for his business partners and employees. These are also extremely important and needed when keeping a business running smoothly and in a way that will keep profits up. He also has partners that he shares business proposals with to make possible changes and get feedback, and these are a also a huge part of his academic side of writing but these do not happen very often like his advertisements and updated guidelines.

Analysis of Sources:
Taking away from one source I found, people with a background and/or career in business do several different types of formal and informal writing. Most of the writings done in this field are memos and business letters. These are informal or nonacademic types of writing they use to communicate and pass on information to their coworkers. Memos are used almost daily to communicate basic information like deadlines to colleagues these are usually sent through email. Other kinds of writings such as business letters, which would be in the standard form of a formal letter and are generally used to apply for jobs and also pass on information. In other sources some other types of writings can be much lengthier and go into much greater detail for instance, a business proposal that brings up and offers new and innovative ideas or processes. These often require a lot of research and evidence to back up what they are trying to explain and persuade to their colleagues. Another much shorter and possibly simpler form of nonacademic writing that we see in our everyday lives are advertisements and slogans used by marketing professionals to portray and intrigue the audience to buy or invest in their specific product, this is a very significant form of writing that often gets overlooked.

Interview Questions

• How do you prepare for your academic pieces?
• How often do you use non-academic sources such as emails, instructions, etc.?
• How often do you publish your academic pieces?
• How have your past writing classes prepared you for your writing in this profession?
• What other college courses helped you in this career?
• Do you enjoy writing in this particular career?

Assignment 1 genre type

For out first assignment we must write an informative report using several different sources including information from interviews. This informative genre will be also comparing the information that we receive from each professional we interview. This report will be a formal piece to explain the roll that writing takes in that specific profession. Using  information collected by professionals will help with writing this piece. It will help us understand what kind of writing they do and how they do so. it will also show us the importance of the writing classes that they took which we are currently taking. This will also help with the clarity and credibility of this report by using  actual authentic information collected by professionals.

Analysis of Assignment 1

After reading the print out for our first assignment for an informative piece there will obviously be many aspects used in this rhetorical situation. The genre obviously is an informative piece to put together the information we have gathered from the people we interview in our specific desired profession. The purpose of this report is to increase the awareness of what this profession involves to incoming freshman. The audience of this report will be for the freshman next year that are looking to pursue a career in this specific field. My stance will be to positively and informatively explain the information received by the person being interviewed.The media being used in this report will be the people being interviewed along with the information and experience from the profession that they share.

English 101 writing assignment analysis

In English 101 I wrote an informative essay on " The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved" analyzing Hunter S. Thompson and how this piece reflected his type of writing and journalism. the audience of this essay that I was writing towards was my English professor. My stance in this essay was that "The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved" was a perfect example of Thompson's gonzo journalism that he was most well-known for, "Hunter S. Thompson’s, “The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved” serves as a great example of the gonzo journalism that Thompson started and perfected". This line from my essay is in fact my thesis which was my stance which aided my purpose for this essay. Even though I was not given a specific prompt to write, knowing my professor and knowing what exactly he was looking for and expecting helped me to confidently and clearly write about and portray my stance in this piece. I could probably have made my essay better by maybe thinking about my audience being more than just my professor to maybe change up the way I wrote about Thompson and his work. But apparently I was on the right track with my essay and what I trying portray with this because I received a deserved A given all the research and effort put into it.

Rhetorical Situation

• The context of a rhetorical act, made up of a rhetor, an issue, and an audience.
• A rhetorical situation occurs when a rhetor, an audience, a medium, and a context converge to create a rhetorical act, such as writing or speaking.
• Purpose, audience, stance, genre, and medium, and the design are important aspects when regarding a rhetorical situation.

About me

My name is Sheldon Miller-Embry and Miller is part of my last name, it's hyphenated obviously. I am currently a freshman attending the University of Louisville. I am majoring in business, and plan on continuing in a marketing degree. I currently live in New Albany. Indiana. I previously went to New Albany High School where I played baseball for four years.