Writers, just like their audience, are influenced by a number of things, like their age, locations, perspective, bias, culture, experiences, and expectations. The topic should also be broad enough to fit the assignment’s parameters and specific enough to go into detail. The topic may be self-selected or assigned, but writers should try and find an angle that they are motivated to write about. The topic is the content of your writing. Audiences bring in their own perspectives, biases, experiences, and expectations, which can make writing for a particular audience difficult. When writing anything, consider who is being addressed. Are you writing to inform, evaluate, analyze, or convince? Each of these purposes carries specific conventions and dictates how the writing will be formed. The Parts of the Rhetorical Situation purposeĬonsider what the purpose of the writing is. The purpose and the topic create the text while the audience and writer make up the other two parts.
NOTE: The rhetorical situation is based loosely on the rhetorical triangle. See our handouts on context and audience for more information. These parts work together to better describe the circumstances and contexts of a piece of writing, which if understood properly, can help you make smart writing choices in your work. The rhetorical situation can be described in five parts: purpose, audience, topic, writer, and context. A piece of writing is shaped and influenced by its surrounding circumstances and contexts.
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