1. Who is your audience for this paper?
I believe my audience is my professor. He will be the one reading and grading the paper, no one else. I will have a classmate or 2 read it just to edit it and give me feedback, but the person who actually matters is my teacher.
2. What is your definition of writing?
My definition of writing is something that someone says or does, but it doesn't have to be the actual acting of writing anything down.
3. What genre do you want to use to tell your audience what you have to tell them?
Well previously I wrote about who I was going to tell (my audience), what I was going to tell them (my definition of writing), and now I have to decide how I am going to tell them. Since I chose my audience to be my teacher, I will write a formal essay telling him everything I need to tell him. I don't think anything else would be appropriate in this situation.
4. Why is it worth defining writing? Why is this essay important?
I believe it is important to define writing because everyone has a different opinion on what writing is. I believe the definition of writing is something completely different than my roommate does. I also believe it is important because to make my definition of writing true, we writing something everyday. Everyone either physically writes, types and email or paper of some sort, draws a picture, types a text message, or something along those lines.
5. Why now? Why is it important to define writing now in your life?
I believe it is important to define writing now in my life, because I just started a whole new chapter in my life. Not only in general, but in the academic world. I have never taken time to think about the definition of writing, because honestly, I have never cared. I have never taken time out of my day to consider what is writing, and what is not writing.