I've Been Thinking Rhetorically Since Grade School

Envisions Ch. 1 was about how to analyze rhetoric writing. When writing rhetorically, your goal is to persuade your audience to the points you are trying to convey. If you have trouble grasping the term, it is ok. First off, a very good synonym for rhetorical is persuasive. We have all been writing “persuasive essays” since grade school, so it is a similar concept. A few questions to ask yourself while writing a rhetorical essay is: how does the text get across the writers argument? What demographic is the argument aimed at?

A very helpful tool that was in our assigned text on page 6, figure 1.6. It is called the rhetorical situation, and it consists of 3 parts. First you have the writer, or author, of the argument. This person must prepare what is going to be said, the text, and know his/her demographic, the audience. The next part is the text, or the actual comprised argument. This is made by the author, the writer, and it is taken in by the people listening, the audience. And the last part of this triangle is the most important in my opinion and that is the audience. The audience is the whole reason you even make an argument in the first place, because you need people to persuade. The writer’ whole body of text is tweaked around who is listening. The writer isn’t going to write an extremely Republican speech and go perform it in front of an auditorium full of Democrats. The whole reason you write a persuasive argument of course is to persuade your audience, so you need to make sure the information is tailored to their likings.