Stance – Attitude towards one’s topic

 

How did you engage with this element throughout the semester?

 

• -Having the freedom to choose topics allowed for exploration of attitudes on certain topics (students were able to build stance, change stance, consider varying stances)
• -Stance should be conveyed through paper’s tone, content (very specific materials)
• -Stance impacts purpose because, one must know how they fell on a topic in order to know what to include in their content and why they are writing.
• -Content is heavily affected by stance, you will purposely include content and research that supports your stance.
• -*Audience must know stance, this affects how the paper is delivered and absorbed.
• -Student also had to consider audience stance in order to impact the purpose and content of their assignments.
• -Sometimes students discussed not having a stance because the assignment (and the purpose of the assignment) prompted them to remain neutral.

 

How did you analyzing stance impact your writing?

 

• Directly affected content. Students will tailor content based on stance.
• Also, students will pay more attention to their voice content, and purpose if their aim is to remain neutral.
• Paying attention to stance impacted the overall paper writing process.
• Affects student choices on sources.

 

Based on the answer on Quora, (Wendy Maples, Author of Good Essay Writing and other uni texts (2000-present) Answered Sep 3, 2018), “‘What’s your stance’ is asking you to start by stating clearly what you think about — usually — a point of controversy. This is NOT the same as arguing wholeheartedly for one side or another as you might in the opening statements of a position debate. ‘What’s your stance’ requires you to discuss the EXTENT to which you side with one argument or ideal, etc. or another and provide evidence that supports your opinion. You might be mostly ‘pro’ or mostly ‘con’, or somewhere in between; or pro in some contexts and con in another.”

For engineers, the purpose of writing is to document what we are trying. From the beginning of the semester, I knew the purpose of writing. It is to inform and convey to my audience the theme I am passionate about.

Reference:

Wendy Maples, Author of Good Essay Writing and other uni texts (2000-present) Answered Sep 3, 2018 https://www.quora.com/What-does-whats-your-stance-in-writing-an-essay-mean