Audience
This is the definition of audience
What is the population that the text was written for?
This is the definition of rhetor.
What is the person who is making the argument or writing the text?
This is the definition of intended purpose.
What is what the rhetor wishes for the text to communicate to the audience?
This is the definition of unintended effects
What is other effects that the author may not have had in mind while creating their argument?
This is the definition of exigence.
What is why the author is talking about the subject at the current time?
This is a possible audience for picture books.
What is elementary school students?
What is young children?
What is early readers?
This is one thing that you should understand about the rhetor when analyzing their argument.
What is their beliefs/values?
What is their past actions?
What is their previous arguments/audiences?
What is their reputation?
This is a possible intended purpose of a play.
What is to entertain the audience?
This is a possible unintended effect of a play.
What is to bore the audience?
What is to put the audience to sleep?
What is to upset the audience?
Exigence can help clarify this.
What is the rhetor's purpose?
This audience would be the most likely targeted by a petition to create a law to federally outlaw the death penalty in the United States.
What is Congress?
This rhetor studied in Unit 2 argued for compassionate academic study of people in Appalachia.
Who is Dr. Joshua Wilkey?
This is a example of something an author may use to communicate their intended purposes in an informative article about the ongoing COVID 19 pandemic.
What are scholarly articles?
What is the CDC website?
What are death or infection rates?
This may be an unintended effect of games with strobe lights.
What is an epilepsy attack?
This is an example of why a rhetor may have written an argumentative paper on the predatory nature of College Board while in high school.
What is they just took their SAT?
What is they're applying to colleges?
This method would be inappropriate to communicate with an audience of people with authority issues.
What is telling them what to do?
A rhetor who wishes to convince their audience that they are the second coming of Jesus may be involved in one of these.
What is a cult?
This is the intended purpose of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
What is to prohibit racial discrimination in voting?
This is a common unintended effect of language autoethnographies in 1301 students who aren't confident in writing about their language practices.
What is their project being boring?
What is not communicating their language practices properly?
This is something you would research if you were reading a paper responding to Malcolm X's "The Ballot or the Bullet".
What is "The Ballot or the Bullet"?
Who is Malcolm X?
What is the conversation surrounding Malcolm X?
What is the rhetorical situation of "The Ballot or the Bullet"?
This is a rhetorical situation that would fully entertaining for someone who's immersed in Marvel comics, partially entertaining for people who like superhero movies, and not at all entertaining for people who think that Peter Parker is the only Spider-Man.
What are the Spiderverse movies?
A rhetor known for having a reputation of using unreliable sources during their rhetorical situation may be accused of having these, a phrase popularized in 2017 by Kellyanne Conway.
What are alternative facts?
This is a term popularized in online spaces in which a rhetor makes content to purposely make the audience upset in order to garner attention.
What is rage baiting?
Unintended effects may do this if the audience likes them better than the author's intended purposes.
What is help communicate the author's purpose?
This is required to engage with the current context of Guardians of the Galaxy.
What is watching Captain America: The First Avenger, Iron Man, Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 2, Thor, The Avengers, and Thor: The Dark World?