If you’re in college, chances are you have written a rhetorical analysis of a piece of writing before. Analyzing the tools authors use to influence their audience is a common assignment in most ...

A rhetorical analysis considers all elements of the rhetorical situation--the audience, purpose, medium, and context--within which a communication was generated and delivered in order to make an ...

what is the rhetorical situation, and most importantly, why is this important? These are all questions that a freshman English teacher has to be good at explaining, otherwise droopy, tired college ...

Students should learn to use language in flexible ways in order to respond to any given rhetorical situation. Rhetorical flexibility requires awareness of specific writing-related concepts such as ...