Thinking critically about rhetorical situations

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Thinking about your own attention to purpose, audience, and context

Analyze a text you have written or are working on right now for an academic course.

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    Can you state its purpose(s) clearly and succinctly? If not, what can you do to clarify its purpose(s)?
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    What other purposes for this piece of writing can you imagine? How would fulfilling some other purpose change the writing?
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    Can you tell from reading the piece who the intended audience is? If so, what in your text clearly relates to that audience? If not, what can you...
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    What other audiences can you imagine? How would the writing change if you were to address a different audience? How would it change if you were...
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    What changes would you have to make to create the work in a different genre or medium?
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    Does your writing follow the conventions of standard academic English—and if not, should you revise it so that it will? Note your conclusions...