English Composition › Section A · Reading and responding critically › Topic A.2
Rhetoric and the rhetorical situation
Every text is someone trying to do something with words for someone else, at a particular moment. Rhetoric is the study of how that works, and the rhetorical situation is the map of who, why, where and when.
In this topic
- You already use rhetoric
- What rhetoric means
- Rhetoric is neutral
- The rhetorical situation: agents
- Purpose and stance
- Genre and medium
- Context and kairos
- Culture
- Worked example: one request, two audiences
- Worked example: mapping a post
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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