Chapter 1 Blog

     The most intriguing part about this reading was how in-depth genre is and how it affects the piece so much.  With a piece hitting multiple genres it will draw different types of audiences towards it making it more interesting for more people and as a writer I believe you should try and branch out to as big of an audience as you can.  But that makes your rhetoric more difficult because each genre has a different set of rules and features that are expected of it. After looking at the two pieces by Paul Henderson, a ranger at the park, and Shaan Hurley, a blogger and hiker of the park, talk about the collapse of the arch it revealed how much a piece can different through using different strategies to get the audience’s attention through the rhetorical situation and the genre’s conventions.  And overall the main concept that I learned was everything a writer does has a direct effect on an audience and how that can change the piece.