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Chloe L. Biggs
Writing prompt seven charges us to examine how far we’ve come in the semester long
topic and how. One of the methods driving our progress has been rhetorical knowledge. The
Rhetorical knowledge is the ability to identify and apply strategies across a range of texts
and writing situations. Using their own writing processes and approaches, writers
compose with intention, understanding how genre, audience, purpose, and context impact
This method of composing has overall heightened my awareness of why I am creating something
the way I am and pushes me to stray away from presenting information in the formats I am most
project, my audience is mostly comprised of young adults like myself who are enjoying their last
year or two of teenagedom. I know that they don’t want a dry, colorless or overly formal
presentation from our group. Thus, we have made sure that our slides are clean, but still
intriguing, We have also included several interactive components. We plan to make some aspects
of our project feel more like a conversation than a lecture. Also, with a topic revolving around
medicine, audience is especially important to consider. We are aware that not everyone in the
class is a biology major or nursing major like my partner and I. I just finished the first draft of
one slide that attempts to explain the cause of cancer on a level that any college student,
regardless of science background, can grasp. This slide may warrant revision, but thanks to
I think that class discussions have challenged me to look at this project differently
because my classmates provide such diverse perspectives to my topic and ask questions that
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prompt me to dig deeper and broader. As far as sources, not one in particular has presented any
major obstacles to how I thought this project would go. Instead, the sheer amount of information
available and related topics that we could explore has made it hard to focus on a presentation
with a clear outline. All in all, my partner and I will continue to look back at the prompts and
discussions that have expanded our original inquiries and try to include as many as possible,
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