Wp1 comparison Audrey Zenner Writing January Yelp Restaurant Reviews as a New Genre When asked to investigate a new genre one of my favorite activities came to mind eating Speci ?cally exploring new places to eat at One way that I ?nd new restaurants is t

Audrey Zenner Writing January Yelp Restaurant Reviews as a New Genre When asked to investigate a new genre one of my favorite activities came to mind eating Speci ?cally exploring new places to eat at One way that I ?nd new restaurants is through the Yelp application and website This websiteA constant throughout history is the importance of food People gather and bond over meals and they can carry cultural or emotional signi ?cance It should make sense then that there exist many types of writing that revolve around food From recipe books to entire magazines people write and read about food for all sorts of di ?erent reasons One important reason to read about food is to decide where to get it from Today a popular platform for picking restaurants is using an application called Yelp Yelp was created to give consumers a platform to leave reviews of businesses for others to read and consider before going to that business Yelp reviews diverged from the similar genres that preceded it by changing conventions and rhetorical situations Other generations have employed di ?erent formsSome of the types of writing to make informed decisions about where to eat Some of the that past tools that people generations used in this situation arewere newspaper restaurant reviews and Michelin Guidebooks Among other sources these two publications can be categorized as antecedent genres or genres that came before the discussed genre These two antecedent genres are similar to Yelp restaurant reviews in that they serve the same broad purpose of guiding the decision of where to eat however they di ?er greatly in the other two parts ofwhen the rhetorical situation is examined more closely CAs we know from learning about Bitzer ? s de ?nition of rhetorical situations audience purpose and writer play a very important part in determining genre The audienceThese three distinctions can entirely change a piece of newspaper reviewswriting and they are the Michelin Guide is con ?nedkeys to people who are paying fordi ?erentiating between genres The purpose drives the newspaper or book whereaswriting and provides a reason to write in the audience ?rst place Changes in author can completely redirect and alter a type of Yelp restaurant reviews is much broader and includes anyone with internet access Another factor that guides genre formation is the writerwriting as we learned from Bunn ? s article How to Read Like a Writer Bunn ? s argumentBunn argues that the choices and techniques the author uses directly impact your experience as a reader which is clearly re ected in the change in writers from newspaper reviews and the Michelin Guide to Yelp reviews of restaurants The authors of newspaper restaurant reviews are limited to columnists while the writers of the Michelin Guides are mystery reviewers and the writers of Yelp reviews are regular everyday people In order to examine the way changes in both audience and authorrhetorical situation have contributed to the development of this new genre I will examine three

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