1) To start to analyze the rhetorical situation for the text you chose as a topic for your Rhetorical Situation Assignment (that’s the same text as you submitted for my approval in the Brainstorming W

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1) To start to analyze the rhetorical situation for the text you chose as a topic for your Rhetorical Situation Assignment (that’s the same text as you submitted for my approval in the Brainstorming Workshop). You’ll be using this outline as a framework for your draft of your paper. 

2) To continue to practice applying rhetoric as a frame for analysis.

3) To practice identifying rhetorical situations and their characteristics.

Intended Audience: Classmates. Instructor. Writing Teachers. Individuals interested learning more about rhetorical analysis.

Assignment Description: Post an outline of the rhetorical situation of the text you intend to examine for the rhetorical situation assignment. The initial post is due by the date posted; the responses to classmates are due 24 hours  later.

  1. Identify all of the rhetors of the text.
  2. Explain the exigence of the text and why it was made. Go into detail so that you can easily turn this into a first page draft later this week.
  3. Then explain for whom the text was made. Who are all of the intended audiences for the text? For each of these audiences, what do they they stand to gain, and why? What do they stand to lose, and why?
  4. Finally, identify all of the constraints that shaped the creation of the text. You can consider conventions (what the expectations are for this kind of text in terms of how it looks/its content/how much room you had/how it gets published or shown/the language you need to use for it/budget/etc.).
  5. Peer review part of the assignment: come back to this forum and respond to at least two of your classmates outlines within 24 hours of the post due date. Provide them with some ideas and insights that will expand their outlines. Help them elaborate on questions 1-4.

Overall, in your outline, go into detail. From this outline, you’ll next be writing your thesis statement for your entire essay. Build a broad purview of the text so that it’s easy to develop a central statement for the essay. Use these activities to continue to develop your knowledge about rhetorical theory.