ENGL 3090: Exposition
Informative Website or Podcast
In English 3090, we were trained on producing nonfictional, unbiased texts. Our final project, for example, was to create a platform – either through webtext or podcast – to transmit information on anything of personal interest. Since expository genres approach writing through informative means instead of persuasion, this project was largely research-based. However, the final website results from a careful consideration of the five canons of rhetoric, as well as the rhetorical situation. This artifact expanded my ideas of what rhetoric includes. My only goal in creating the website was to inform other students on the origins and merit of Textese, as well as provide information on code-switching.
Reflecting on Artifact Three, I find my website to be cluttered. While the format I chose is aesthetically pleasing and introduces ethos in the transmission of the research, the menu layout feels overcrowded with option. Also, had I more time, I would have fleshed out each of the pages to include more information on their content, as the Communicative Forms Timeline page is underdeveloped. However, the website functions well as a whole.
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