Variation across Contexts.
“Students will be able to identify, analyze, and reflect on variation in rhetorical and linguistic patterns, including their own, from a range of contexts (e.g., cultural, digital, workplace, and/or academic).“
Evidence #1
This activity asked us to adapt William Carlos Williams’s poem “This Is Just To Say” for a very specific audience and in a genre that the audience would expect. I chose to write a text message to my roommate, confessing that I had eaten the plums she bought. The task required careful consideration of tone, word choice, and structure to ensure that the message would feel natural and appropriate for a casual, digital conversation. I kept the core content of the poem intact while changing its format and style to fit the expectations of the chosen medium.
This activity demonstrates the importance of variation across contexts because it shows how the same message can be expressed differently depending on the audience and format. In transforming a poetic reflection into a text message, I had to think critically about how to maintain meaning while adapting to the conventions of informal communication. This exercise helped me understand how writers make choices based on context and how those choices influence how a message is received.
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