Texting friends, texting family, Facebook comment, emailing an instructor, collaborative brainstorming
Texting a Friend:
When writing to a friend, especially in a text, it's normal to sound super casual, and use abbreviations. My purpose in this writing was to communicate with her what we were doing this weekend, and plan out how we were going to get our other friend to her house. My rhetorical situation allowed me to be informal; there's no set rules or restrictions on how your writing needs to sound to a friend other than whatever the social norm is between the two of you.
Emailing an Instructor:
My rhetorical situation here is a lot more formal that what I normally write, as I was emailing to inquire about joining NHS as a Running Start student. I wanted to sound like an interested student, as I wanted to join. I'd never actually met the teacher in charge, so I thought it was important to be polite, as you need to be when talking to someone who has an amount of authority over you.
Collaborative Writing:
The collaborative writing I did was a group discussion on a subject we had been assigned to write about. Our purpose was to together contrast our thoughts about a topic, and record our opinions, as well as any new ideas about our subject that came from the discussion. Being the scribe to a collaborative writing effort is quite different than writing by yourself because you have a responsibility to include the voice of everyone in the group. It's also academic writing, so it needs to feel professional enough to be seen by a professor or other students.
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