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Contents & Navigation<\/div>\n
overview<\/a><\/div>\n
p<\/span>urpose<\/a><\/div>\n
a<\/span>udience<\/a><\/div>\n
types of audience<\/a><\/div>\n
demographic information<\/a><\/div>\n
g<\/span>enre<\/a><\/div>\n
o<\/span>rganization<\/a><\/div>\n
s<\/span>tyle<\/a><\/div>\n
extended pagos prompts<\/a><\/div>\n
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related:\u2002Example: PAGOS Plan for ENC 3213 Syllabus<\/a>\u2002\u25cf\u2002<\/span>Example: PAGOS Plan for Best Buy\u2019s Gift Card Pricing Error<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Overview<\/h3>\n

When you think about what you want to have happen as a result of your communication, you consider purpose<\/strong>. When you think about your audience, what they value, how they might react, what they’re interested in, their position and responsibilities, their frame of reference, etc., you consider your audience<\/strong>. When you think about the medium through which you will communicate\u2014in person? on the phone? by email? etc.\u2014you consider genre<\/strong>. When you think about how to begin, how to order the details, and what note to close on, you consider organization<\/strong>. When you think about your tone, diction, visual elements, and level of formality, you consider style<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

When you think about those things, you\u2019re thinking rhetorically\u2013you\u2019re thinking about all of the elements of the situation and making choices about what and how to communicate in order to achieve your purpose.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Throughout the term, we will use these five elements\u2013purpose, audience, genre, organization, and style\u2013in two ways:<\/p>\n

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  1. as a frame for analyzing existing sample documents to determine whether they would be successful or unsuccessful in achieving their purpose and in thinking of ways to improve them, and<\/li>\n
  2. as a strategy for planning our own professional communication in the hopes of achieving our purpose.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    In this detailed explanation and list of considerations, I\u2019ll use second person (you) instead of third person (the writer).<\/p>\n

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    The purpose<\/span> of most professional writing
    \nsituations is not<\/span> “to write a [thing].”<\/div>\n
    The purpose<\/span> of professional writing situations is to do something<\/span>\u2014to get information, to sell a product, to encourage further contact, to build goodwill, to get a refund, to demonstrate credibility…<\/div>\n
    The purpose of professional writing is to get something done.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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    Is the purpose<\/span> to inform?<\/span> Maybe. In PAGOS plans, purpose<\/span> asks<\/div>\n
    WHAT DO YOU WANT TO HAPPEN<\/div>\n
    as a result of this communication situation?<\/div>\n
    Do you want your audience to simply be informed<\/span>?<\/div>\n
    Or do you want your audience to do something<\/span>?<\/div>\n
    (think something? keep something in mind? change their behavior? change their attitude? understand? agree with your position? etc.)<\/div>\n
    Sometimes the purpose is simply to inform, but usually, there’s more.<\/div>\n
    The purpose of pro writing is (usually) to get something done.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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    to write a thing<\/td>\nto do a thing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    to write an instruction set<\/td>\nto instruct a user in how to use a product<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    to write a description<\/td>\nto describe a design to a potential investor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    to write a report<\/td>\nto inform a client about progress on a project<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

    P<\/span>URPOSE<\/h3>\n
    purpose is what the writer wants to have happen as a result of the situation<\/div>\n