- - What type of communication is it? Oral or written? - - What type of genre (text type) is it? Letter, email, advertisement, airport announcement, soccer match broadcast, the news, the weather report, Skype Telephone conversation?
What would you like to visit or do there? Tick your preferences.
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Federation square
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Tram City Tour
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Old Jail
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Tour of Lanes and Arcades in the City
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Harley Davidson Ride/sightseeing
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St Kilda beach site suburb
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Australian Tennis Open
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The Formula Grand Prix
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Melbourne Cup
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Melbourne Cricket Ground, the MCG
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The Yarra river South Bank
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The Eureka Tower
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Ballooning
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5 Conventions of different text types (a) writing: email, message, chat, blog,wiki, notes, articles, reports,dissertations, text message, wishing card, memo. (b) Speech: lectures, public speaking, conversation, debate. Example 1: letter Sender name, receiver name, date, greeting letter boday, farewell Example 2, dialogue: the names of the two interlocutors or just interlocutor 1, interlocutor 2, and after this (:) and what each one says. For example: John: Good morning. Jane: Hi. OR Interlocutor 1: How much is it? Interlocutor 2: Twelve Euros.
a Definition: A rhetorical mode is a ………………….. - a way or ………………….. of ………………….. a ………………….. - through ………………….. or ………………….. .
b Examples: Four examples of rhetorical paragraphs are: ………………….. ………………….. ………………….. …………………..
c Also called: Another name for rhetorical modes is ………………….. ………………….. ………………….. d Usefulness: The rhetorical modes are important to know because they help ………………….. to learn how to ………………….. …………………..
Practice Watch your instructor while demonstrating 10 different paragraphs. Read each paragraph carefully paying particular attention to the transitional expressions used. Try to identify the type of rhetorical paragraph being shown. Class discussion.
Paragraph number
Type of paragraph/ Rhetorical style
Transitional Language / Expressions
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7
8
9
10
Let's test! Watch another ten paragraphs and identify the rhetorical mode each paragraph is. On a piece of paper, note down your answers and submit your answers to your instructor!
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The History of Communication
Watch this video: http://vimeo.com/2064695
- - What type of communication is it? Oral or written?
- - What type of genre (text type) is it? Letter, email, advertisement, airport announcement, soccer match broadcast, the news, the weather report, Skype Telephone conversation?
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Definition of 'text'
http://grammar.about.com/od/tz/g/textterm.htm
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/
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Genre / Text Types
Brainstorm for different genre - text types.
Speech
Writing
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Identifying Different Genre / Text Types
Text type 1
Text type 2
Text type 3
Text type 4
text type 5
Text type 6
Text type 7
Text type 8
Text type 9 Text type 9 b
Text type 10
Task on Text type 10
What would you like to visit or do there? Tick your preferences.
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Conventions of different text types
(a) writing: email, message, chat, blog,wiki, notes, articles, reports,dissertations, text message, wishing card, memo.
(b) Speech: lectures, public speaking, conversation, debate.
Example 1: letter
Sender name, receiver name, date, greeting letter boday, farewell
Example 2, dialogue:
the names of the two interlocutors or just interlocutor 1, interlocutor 2, and after this (:) and what each one says. For example:
John: Good morning.
Jane: Hi.
OR
Interlocutor 1: How much is it?
Interlocutor 2: Twelve Euros.
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Rhetorical Styles
Intro
Visit the following websites and then answer the questions that follow.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetorical_modes
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~jewel001/CollegeWriting/START/Modes.htm
a Definition:
A rhetorical mode is a ………………….. - a way or ………………….. of ………………….. a ………………….. - through ………………….. or ………………….. .
b Examples:
Four examples of rhetorical paragraphs are:
…………………..
…………………..
…………………..
…………………..
c Also called:
Another name for rhetorical modes is ………………….. ………………….. …………………..
d Usefulness:
The rhetorical modes are important to know because they help ………………….. to learn how to ………………….. …………………..
Practice
Watch your instructor while demonstrating 10 different paragraphs. Read each paragraph carefully paying particular attention to the transitional expressions used.
Try to identify the type of rhetorical paragraph being shown.
Class discussion.
Let's test!
Watch another ten paragraphs and identify the rhetorical mode each paragraph is. On a piece of paper, note down your answers and submit your answers to your instructor!