WAW Post #1: The Rhetorical Situation

Welcome to my Writing About Writing Blog!  

My name is Brittany Webb and I am currently a senior Theatre/English major at Eastern Kentucky University. This semester I am enrolled in Dr. Jill Parrott's English 302, Advanced Composition course. This blog will be used for my Writing About Writing project, and each post will be for each assignment! 

My first post is about the Rhetorical Situation.

Photo created by me. The Rhetorical Situation is a great tool that Dr. Parrott shared with me during class that is a tool to help my writing be well-organized, audience focused and strong. In this case it is set up in a triangle outline.

Author: I am the author in this rhetorical situation because I am the curator of this blog.

Audience: My audience is Dr. Parrott.

Purpose: The purpose of this blog is for me to grow as a writer during my senior year of college. Although I am entering my fourth year I still have the opportunity to continue to gain knowledge, especially with my writing.  

"The day you stop learning is the day that you die." -Unknown

Text: The text is web-based in blog form and easily accessible to others via the internet.The reason why I chose this medium is because I have never successfully continued a blog... I have started many--never fully stuck with one though. I was hoping that since this is a required assignment and it's completion would affect my grade, that I would strive to stick with it.

Context:  This project is a social-independent project, currently happening now, at Eastern Kentucky University where I can explore my thoughts and express them for others to see.

Hopefully the use of this diagram will help me remained focused on my current task at hand.

For further research regarding the rhetoric situation feel free to check out the Purdue Owl website: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/625/1/