Process

A tornado is a rotating funnel of air that meets with the surface of the earth and the clouds. The surface of the earth would be the paper, and since the clouds are overlooking the earth, they would be the reader. While the tornado is forming, so is the establishment of what the genre, audience, and rhetorical situation are.

PROCESS

A sequence of events leading to the final product.

Process is a tornado.

Like a tornado, from "Reflection in the Writing Classroom," Kathleen Blake Yancey says that "writing has always been understood as unpredictable- to write well is both to understand and to respond appropriately to a rhetorical situation." This shows how writing is a process since it is unpredictable and we would need to figure out all the elements about what we are writing before actually doing so.

"If theres a pencil in your pocket, there is a good chance that one day you'll feel tempted to start using it."

(Paul Auster)

Having the tools to write anywhere you go, as Paul Auster suggests, will influence you to write more than usual which gives you the practice of going through the process of using genre, audience, and rhetorical situation.

Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson demonstrates how process is a tornado when he says that "good ideas may not want to be free, but they do want to connect." This ties in with the metaphor of a tornado as the process of establishing genre, audience, and rhetorical situation because you need to generate ideas of what you will write which begins building the audience, and before you can start to write you must think about the genre and rhetorical situation.

I have learned that genre, audience, and rhetorical situation connect with each other and are the foundation to my papers and composition. Meaning, without going through the process of evaluating, recognizing, and applying my genre, audience, and rhetorical situation in all that I have completed, my work would not stand a chance.