james kinneavy

James Kinneavy’s aims of discourse explain two different types of writers: and encoder and decoder. Encoder writers are known to be expressive in their writing. When in an environment of just themselves, they tend to have conversation and write in journals or diaries. But when they are with a group of people they have contracts and religious credos. On the other hand, a decoder is someone who is persuasive; such as politics, advertisement, and editorials. The style between both encoder and decoder are literary; like short stories, novels, lyrics and movies. In reality, we may see both of these characters at seminars (exploratory), in scientific essays (scientific), or textbooks (informative). My reaction to Kinneavy’s description of two different kinds of writers was putting his info into a table like picture. It reminded me of the compare/contrast circles, where the similarity between the two was written in the middle and the differences in the circles. His way of describing what a encoder and decoder was would be helpful to those who are visual learners and his technique is more interesting than reading paragraph by paragraph.