I think two of the genres would be interesting to me, the cover letter and the the project proposal. The cover letter has the most obvious usefulness of the two. While applying to jobs, most will require a cover letter as a part of the application process, so it would be useful to know how to write a cover letter. The project proposal would also be fairly useful, as I may have some idea that I would want to pitch publicly.
As I said before, a cover letter could be an appropriate response to a rhetorical situation in my future. The situation would be applying for a job. Somewhere in the application, it would ask for a cover letter and I would need to provide one in order to be considered for the job. The audience is likely the HR department and the rest of the hiring team that may read it. The desired uptake would be that the audience would have a quick overview of my accomplishments and my relevant skills to the position that I’m applying for.
From the schema/template file, I get a pretty clear idea of how a cover letter is set up. It will be in three different sections generally, with introduction, background, and closing paragraphs. The only thing that may be unclear to me is if all cover letters follow the same format for all majors and experience levels. I’m not sure if an engineer with no background will have a similar cover letter to a liberal arts major with twenty years of experience. From reading examples composed by the group, they all seem very similar in structure. The writing style makes the authors seem eager to get in further contact with the company. On my own, I would have to read a lot more examples of cover letters. Although they are all similar in structure, the word choice may be different throughout examples, so it would be good to read a variety of cover letters from many different fields.
