WRIT 3003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Rhetorical Situation
22 Oct 2018
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A specific condition that invites discourse to alter its reality. A thing which is other than it should be. Can change mood, patterns, can make something happen. Each person has their own communities (cultural, language, etc. ) Mediator of the change that the discourse functions to produce. Persons, events, objects, and relations that have the power to affect decisions and action needed to modify the exigence. Sell a product/idea, get approval, give instructions, request assistance, change a process. Reader response = i"ll do it (take action) The audience is the most important in the model. Get the main message first and then explain more about the message. The writing process: getting started: establish your goal. What will the audience do/think/feel as a result of the message: identify the readers. In order if simple; flexibly if complex: create a strategy. Sort (add, delete, move, organize: write for the reader.
