CMN 279 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Discourse Community, Business Communication, Collaborative Writing

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 279
• Professor: Dianne Nubla

Document Summary

Contextual factors: elements of a writing task, such as the situation, organization"s procedures, and readers, that influence the writer"s choices at every step. Genres: agreed-upon forms of writing that develop in response to recurrent situation and that allow users to act purposefully in a particular activity. Discourse community: a group of communicators who share a goal or interest in adopting a way of participating in a public discussion, including the use of particular genres and terminology. Steps in the writing process: prewriting: the process of gathering ideas and establishing the purpose, audience, and channel for a message. Organizing and outlining: mapping out the most strategic and logical arrangement of ideas and details. Drafting: writing the actual message by choosing precise wording and the style of organization that delivers information most strategically. Revising and editing: the last chance for improving your document.