The Nature of Natural Writing

Overall, the "nature" and genre of natural writing along with its different components and outputs all have one thing in common: resourcefulness. Natural writing altogether is a part of its own discourse community and possibly has a rhetorical stance to those who observe it with higher knowledge. Bitzer argues in "The Rhetorical Situation," that in order to find a rhetorical situation of something - in this case, different forms of natural writings - and in order to figure out the rhetorical situation of an artifact, we can ask ourselves simple questions like, "how can we describe this or that?" and "what are their characteristics?" Characteristics of natural everyday writing are that it is fairly random, it may either last for minutes at a time or for decades and natural everyday writing either reaches a small number of people or reaches masses at a time.

No matter the path of endurance it has gone through or whether it be ephemeral, ask yourself... when have you created a form of natural everyday writing?

Works Cited:

Bitzer, Lloyd F. “The Rhetorical Situation.” JSTOR, Penn State University Press, Jan. 1968, www.jstor.org/stable/40236733

Devitt, Amy J. “Generalizing about Genre: New Conceptions of an Old Concept.” JSTOR, National Counsil of Teachers, Dec. 1999, myweb.fsu.edu/jjm09f/WEPOFall2011/Amy%20J.%20Devitt%20Generalizing%20about%20Genre.pdf

Craig, Jacob W. “The Technologies, Environments, and Materials of Everyday Writing.” South Atlantic Review, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, jacobwcraig.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/published_article.pdf

Science Reference Section. “How Do Skywriting and Skytyping Work?” The Library of Congress, Everday Mysteries, 19 Nov. 2019, www.loc.gov/everyday-mysteries/motor-vehicles-aeronautics-astronautics/item/how-do-skywriting-and-skytyping-work/