The genre of a writing is the category of the product of what is written. We were able to establish many different genres in this class. They include letter, lab report, technical description, engineering proposal, and memo. All of these genres have a different type of structure and writing style. Each of these are an efficient method of portraying a writer’s view. For example, a genre of a technical description is used to describe something and a genre of a letter would be better for a persuasion.

Exigence is the cause or reason that made the write write the product. We wrote many different writings throughout the semester and each of them had their own different exigence. For example, we wrote a technical description so that we can introduce, teach, and describe a product to someone and we wrote an engineering proposal to reflect on a matter that needs to be addressed. My exigence for my technical description was “. My exigence of this technical description is to make people realize how bigger thing in life or advancements, especially technology starts from smaller things. In other words, …

The audience of a writing is the group of people that are projected to view the product. There are three different types of audiences. They can be primary, secondary, or tertiary. The primary audience are the people who are the main focus of the writing and the secondary audience is the people who are indirectly related to the focus. Finally, the tertiary audience are the potential viewers with a related focus with the writing. For example, we had to write a engineering proposal to the mayor, making him the primary audience but, our secondary audience was the Department of Transportation …

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