Writer's Journal #18

· First, reflect on one communication modality you use regularly. This could be e-mail, text messaging, voice calls, or video calls. As you reflect, consider how you normally try to determine what the purpose of the communication is when someone contacts you in this communication modality. Is it just the context (like in a work e-mail)? Is it what the other person says is the actual purpose?

· During the pandemic months the work communication absolutely moved from personal to digital. We never saw each other faces again, nor did we have any new conversations between each other face to face. All of our communication is now in digital landscape and it is usually concise, precise, and only related to the subject in hand. We practically waste no time in addressing social conversation anymore. All the purpose of our conversations are work related.

· Second, consider the following question: how might approaching the other elements of the rhetorical situation in those communications change your understanding of the purpose in those communications? For example, how might looking at rhetorical strategies before thinking of

purpose help you to more clearly understand what and why people are communicating?

Well, in this case media and context made us shift from a human perspective to a professional perspective. The purpose of our communication is simply to get the job done and to relate our messages only in activities, codes, and vocabulary related to that goal.