Daniele Laval Period 6 September 28, 2015 Rhetorical Analysis Essay on “Personality and its Effects on Facebook and Self-Disclosure” On social media, there are always some people who post endless selfies and some who post reflective tidbits of poetry, but why? Lindsay Schmit, writer of “Personality and its Effects on Facebook and Self-Disclosure”, gives clarity on topic using the scientific method and extensive research. In her aforementioned research paper, Schmit made an assertion that, by
different academic communities write in characteristic purposes and genres. Genres being an important factor to the discourse community because they are the “types of texts that are recognizable to the readers and writers and that meet the needs of the rhetorical situations in which they function” (Wardle and Downs 798). In general, discourse communities are vital