Rhetorical Situation
The components of the rhetorical triangle.
What are audience, message, & communicator?
The wide array of communicative devices humans have at their disposal to create effects on each other
What is Rhetoric?
The circumstances of communication.
What is context?
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What is are keywords?
A brief recollection or account of the main points of a piece of writing, action or event. (Definition taken from Twinkl)
What is a summary?
The content or gist of an act of communication.
What is message?
Ethos, Logos, & Pathos
What are the Rhetorical Appeals?
The technical means by which communication is distributed.
What is Medium?
The process of discovering the conversation and clarifying your position
What is Research?
A cognitive and social activity that uses signs and symbols to create text.
What is writing?
The recipients who actually received the communication.
What is Addressed Audience?
Describes the components of any situation in which you may want to communicate, whether in written or oral form
What is the Rhetorical Situation?
What the communicator hopes to achieve with this particular rhetorical action
What is purpose?
An organized collection of structured information, or data, typically stored electronically in a computer system. (definition taken from Oracle).
What is a database?
The process of shaping ideas through writing
What is Drafting?
The audience imagined by the communicator.
What is Invoked Audience?
The deliberate shaping of messages for an audience.
What is Rhetorical Action?
Whatever prompted a rhetorical action; the opportunity for communication
What is exigence?
Peer-reviewed journal articles or published texts written by experts/scholars that use thorough research and credible sources
What are Scholarly Sources?
The process of clarifying and shaping a composition
What is Revision?
The circumstances that bring texts into existence
What is the Rhetorical Situation?
The effort to understand how communication creates particular effects on people
What is Rhetorical Analysis?
Somewhat stabilized yet flexible forms of communication that have developed over time and in response to all other rhetorical factors: purpose, audience, context, exigence, modalities, media, circulation
What is genre?
Attributes viewpoints to other sources in order to summarize a controversy or topic
What are informational sources?
The process of generating ideas and arguments.
What is Invention?