Having journeyed through Purgatory, Dante Pilgrim has been as purged of as much sin as is humanly possible.

• However, in the cosmos of Dante's la Commedia, God requires perfection before admission into the heavenly realms—no stain of sin can remain.

Hence, Dante Pilgrim must walk through the purifying flames (image to the left) before God will accept Dante Pilgrim's presence in the heavenly realms.

The Acceptance Challenge of the Refiner's Fire is for the writer:

1. to identify which discourse conventions to use when writing to a particular socially-situated target audience,
2. to make the text (being written) conform with those discourse conventions, and
3. to have his/her text be acceptable in the discourse community of the situated target audience.

Failing to refine a text to the point of acceptance can result in the writer

• failing to achieve the desired consequence (of a particular instance of writing).

1. Familiarize yourself with the content of this webpage and its linked webpages.
2. Write a 300-500 word reflective essay in which you explore how you might use some of that information in three different contexts:
• when you are writing,
• when you are interacting with classmates, and
• when you are reading a text composed by a non-student writer.
3. Submit that essay to your instructor.