Unit 2 Assignment 1

1. What are the five elements in the rhetorical situation? A. Text B. Reader C. Author D. Constraints E. Exigence 2. How can a reader use the rhetorical situation to analyze an argument essay? How can a viewer use the rhetorical situation to analyze an image? How can a writer use the rhetorical situation during the planning phase of writing a paper? A. TRACE can be used to in all three situations. The only difference is that when using TRACE to analyze an image the author is the photographer or artist. 3. Why is the audience important in argument? What types of positions might an audience initially hold? What possible outcomes are associated with arguments directed to each of these audiences? A. Without an audience there is no argument. The audience usually holds different kinds of positions. It may be a friendly, undecided, neutral, unfamiliar, linked, or hostile audience. The outcome of the argument will differ. You might convince the audience, or you may not convince them 4. What is a discourse community? To what discourse communities do you belong? How does a discourse community help establish common ground for its members? A. Discourse community is a specialized group who share subject matter, background, experience, values, and a common language. Currently I belong to two discourse communities. The first community is from my current job being a Behavior Detection Officer and the second community is college. It helps to establish common ground for its members by having resources and peers interested in and sharing in your same beliefs and ideals and having peers to converse with to learn and research subject matter than you all enjoy and share interest in. 5. What is the universal audience? What are the special qualities of this audience? Why is it a useful idea? A. Universal audience is the highest possible mental construction of an audience, to which a speaker addresses his argumentation in order to