One of the components for the poster is the rhetorical decision aspect.
For the press releases, I have a very rigid set of rules that I have to abide by in order to write one correctly. By "correctly" I mean in a way so that my supervisor doesn't have to rewrite them. I have not yet run into a situation where this occurred, but it almost happened with my first release because it was almost 50 words over the maximum required. Oh, the joys! My supervisor had one legacy document that I could check my work by, and this one was three years old. I asked several questions about whether or not the release could be more than that and such, but I never received a straight answer regarding it. I was able to piece together information from the legacy release so that I could write mine. The following are the rules that I realized pertained to each press release:
For the press releases, I have a very rigid set of rules that I have to abide by in order to write one correctly. By "correctly" I mean in a way so that my supervisor doesn't have to rewrite them. I have not yet run into a situation where this occurred, but it almost happened with my first release because it was almost 50 words over the maximum required. Oh, the joys! My supervisor had one legacy document that I could check my work by, and this one was three years old. I asked several questions about whether or not the release could be more than that and such, but I never received a straight answer regarding it. I was able to piece together information from the legacy release so that I could write mine. The following are the rules that I realized pertained to each press release:
· Write no more than 350 words
· Include only the necessary information (when, where, cost, plot)
· Ensure that formatting is standard and font is TNR size 12 pt.
· Use clear spelling with no complex phrases or clichés
· Do NOT give away the ending
· Leave enough room for an entire cast list
· Insert comments if there is anything needing to be added by the supervisor, like the last name of an actor
· Meet the deadline
I would like to place these in a central location on the poster board so that the viewer can easily see that these applied to everything I wrote for the theatre.
From my understanding, these would be the "rhetorical decisions" part of the poster because I had to keep them in mind and not blatantly express them in my writing.
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