Definitions
the individual, group or organization who authors a text
Who is the writer?
the individuals the writer engages with the text
What is audience?
the type of text the writer produces
What is Genre?
Writers frame of reference is influenced by...
What is their experiences, values and needs
the issue at hand, the major topics the writer, text and audience address
What is Subject?
Type of genre that is based on someones life
What is a biography?
refers to other direct and indirect social, cultural, geographical, political, and institutional factors
What is context?
what does the rhetorical situation makes up
What is the text?
the need for the text, an urgent imperfection a writer identifies and the responds to through writing. (why is the writer writing about this subject)
What is exigence?
What the writer and text aiming to do. (What is the writer seeking from the audience)
What is purpose?