In this assignment you will write an essay for incoming first-year college students in which you outline how academic discourse differs from more popular discourse, using examples you choose to support your claims. In this essay you should analyze how each genre is (or is not) persuasive to its audience. It will be helpful for you to frame your argument in the terms we have discussed in class, including, but not limited to, discourse communities, genres, institutions, exigence, audience, context, Aristotelian rhetoric, etc.
