Key Term Discussion

Choose a written artifact that would be found in a workplace (an email, memo, workplace policy document, process instructions, etc.). Do not select an artifact that has sensitive or private information.

Use your chosen term from the forum to analyze how your selected written workplace artifact is functioning rhetorically or describe the rhetorical situation to which the artifact responds.

1. Based on #2, evaluate the merits of the term you selected. What makes it helpful for evaluating your selected artifact of workplace writing?
2. Review the assignment instructions for the Topic 8 Practical Theory: Application of Rhetoric Theory to a Workplace assignment. What makes your selected term helpful for describing a rhetorical situation that you might use in your upcoming rhetorical analysis? Would you like to use your term in your upcoming rhetorical analysis, or would you rather choose something else? Why?
3. To what extent is the term you evaluated useful for students in a writing course? How can this term help them, and why? What could the term do to enable learners in a writing course to do?
4. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
5. You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. A link to the LopesWrite technical support articles is located in Class Resources if you need assistance.

This assignment does not use a scoring guide or a rubric.

Review the “ENG-503 Key Term Forums and Application Protocol” document, located in the Topic 3 Resources, to see how the “Key Term Selection” forum, “Key Term Summary” Forum, and “Key Term Application” assignment all fit together.