The genre that I chose to compose in was Twitter. I use Twitter every day, but I typically retweet other people’s tweets and do not really tweet much myself which is why I chose to take on this challenge. I chose to pretend that there was a huge earthquake in San Francisco and used my platform to inform everybody about it. The intended audience for my genre was anybody who wanted to know current events going on in the world. The purpose was for them to see it and want to help and donate what they can to the victims. The intended audience was also people who were affected by the earthquake. The reason for that was because I tweeted tips on what to do and where to go after the catastrophe if you lost your house or do not know what to do.

          I used rhetorical appeals to connect with my audience. For example, to appeal to their pathos I got a “quote” from one of the survivors saying it was the worst earthquake they’ve been in. I tweeted about how people have been displaced from their homes and the city is wrecked. I feel like that would play on people’s emotions greatly. To appeal to people’s logos I used facts by comparing it to a similar earthquake in the past and showing stats from the website about how affected everybody was by the past earthquake which is why they need help and money to try to prevent the same outcome.

          To make my genre composition recognizable to others I used what people typically see on Twitter. At the end of some of my tweets I used emojis, on others I used the hashtag “prayforsanfran”. These two things, emojis and hashtags, are used very often on Twitter which is what helps it be so identified. I also used things like gifs attached to the tweets for people to get a visual and relate more to the reaction of the event, which is seen on twitter a lot and are called reaction photos. I also uploaded photos that I pretended were sent in from people in the area of the earthquake. At the end of a couple of my tweets I provided links from where I got my information from for people to be able to go on the websites and navigate through them for more information since I was limited to only 140 characters. All of these things are what are seen on mostly every Twitter account which is why I incorporated them all onto mine so they would appeal to everybody of all ages and of all statuses.

          For my research I used two of the cites for help with the context and one for help in the genre. I used the source written by the earthquake country alliance in one of my tweets to shoe others what to do after an earthquake. I tweeted a couple of things that were told and then linked the website on the tweet for people to look into the website more. The same goes for the article written by Reid except I used the article to give facts to compare this earthquake and its outcome to the one that happened in Haiti many years ago. I provided the link to the website in the tweet like the other one. For the last source written by Bullas I followed some of his tips to use as a guide for my twitter account. Like he said to do, I included links, photos, had a catchy begging on some like “live alert” and “beware”.