The rhetorical situation inspired and conditioned by a complex set of elements that compose the rhetorical situation. Specifically, the elements of exigencies, audience, and constraints inspire and determine the appropriateness of discourse. The rhetorical situation has direct structure and organization exist independently of the discourse applied to it. The situation is real, objective observer, and historically factual. Situations generate the need for discourse that can inspire meditating actions in an audience capable of instigating change.
Audience depends entirely on how writers position themselves and how they clarify their motivation in writing (Devitt 88). The audience consists of the intended readers, who may be more or less diverse in their interests and attitude according to the circumstance. In other situations, writers may be addressing what seem to be multiple audiences. In this case, a letter of student newspaper would likely have a diverse readership, of the student, certainly but also faculty. The audience, therefore, rhetorical situation consists of times when writers not only address an existing audience, such as college officials responsible for an aid cut, but also may through the act of writing, try to organize and bring into being an audience what is only in a process of formation.
In a classroom student, make different choices depending on their goals. Some students want a simpler approach; they want to know the method, which is right. However, understanding of the rhetorical situation in general assists students in making informed choices regarding emphasis, content, organization, format, styles and tone. Elegance allows the discussion of how the ‘need’ for writing within a classroom. The material exigencies are typically exclusive therefore the exigency of most, if not all, writing assignments involves the ideology of a student as an initiate whose ways of thinking are subject to the disciplinary practice.
Works Cited
Devitt, A. J. (2000). Integrating rhetorical and literary theories of genre.College English, 62(6), 696-718.
