[Teaching_Composition] The Value/Purpose of Rhetorical Modes

[theteach]

> Writing, however, tends to be a good bit more complex, and outside a 
> freshman comp classroom, it's pretty rare to find any actual writing 
> that uses just one mode.  Instead, we tend to talk about writing as 
> *genres* -- habitual written expressions used to conduct various social 
> activities -- and genres use whatever all modes it takes to accomplish 
> whatever activity.  So when we look at "real" writing -- insofar as 
> writing done outside a composition classroom is any more real than 
> writing done in it -- we don't find modes.

Doug, what genres do you have in mind?
alex