Illustration of Uses appropriate content and conventions for purpose, audience, occasion, and context in the ICLE's Rigor and Relevance Framework
Quadrant C

Students revise the essay written in Quadrant B, synthesizing their more sophisticated content and making if appropriate for an older, more educated audience. Students review, evaluate, revise, and edit each other's essays.

Quadrant D

Students present the ideas developed in Quadrant A, B, or C activities in a series of pamphlets including supporting images with differing versions to address a variety of audiences about town (doctors' offices, bus stations, fast food restaurants, fine dining restaurants, youth sports complexes, secondary educational institutions, YMCA/YWCA, etc.) Students should draft at least three different versions and establish which version should be placed at which location. Students explain and defend decisions to instructor and class.

Quadrant A

Students brainstorm characteristics of different writing purposes, audiences, and situations. Students outline a plan for a chosen specified audience, purpose, and setting.

Quadrant B

Students choose and draft an essay to inform or persuade an elementary school audience about an appropriate topic (for example, capital punishment and abortion would not be appropriate topics for a young audience).