ENGL 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Rhetorical Situation
29 Aug 2018
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Author : the person seeking to communicate a specific message. To persuade, present facts, entertain, or even just express emotions) Audience : people/person reading, listening or viewing text targeted by author. Primary audience : the person for whom the text was written for. Secondary audience : the person who has an interested in the topic because they are connected or interested to the speaker, primary audience, or topic. Context : circumstances surrounding creation and reception of the text, think of it as the setting of the author"s story and/or text. Genre : category of text that shares audiences, purposes, content, and forms. Voice : the style to convey author"s or character"s personality. Form : patterns or structure associated with a specific genre of writing (ex. poetry) Style : specific traits in a written work, such as word choice, structure, acedemic or comfortable. Texts : any artifact or object you analyze (ex.
