Initial Reflection Of Rhetorical Situation Influence My Writing

Initial Reflection In my draft I feel as if I was most successful in explaining how the constituents of the rhetorical situation influenced my writing. In my second writing sample, I mentioned how each of the constituents, most importantly the exigence, shaped the way I wrote the email. I made sure to explain why I chose to write the way I did, and why I chose to include the links and phrases that I used to convince my father to let me join a sorority. Even though I think I went into detail on how the constituents influences my writing, I don 't feel like my first writing sample was explained well. I tried to describe the exigence and rhetors of the essay but it was very difficult for me to explain it without rambling. The second paragraph, …show more content…
My first main global revision was in the second paragraph of my class paper analysis, where I added in Keith Grant-Davie’s distinction between the addressed and invoked audience. I used the definition that I had originally included and I paraphrased how the addressed audience is the people who actually react with the discourse and that the invoked audience is the people who the discourse was intended for. After clarifying that there are two different types of audiences, I made sure to revise the description of the audience I had previously had in my paper by specifying that my invoked audience could also be those researching Booker T. Washington. Adding in the difference between both the addressed and invoked audience was needed because it adds more textual support and strengthens my analysis of my papers rhetorical situation, while providing my understanding of Grant-Davie’s definitions. Another global revision was made in the persuasive e-mail section of the paper where I elaborated on the exigence of my e-mail. I decided to clarify what I had previously because it was somewhat vague and it needed to be more specific. To make sure that I was clear with the exigence, I was very straightforward and answered the three different questions that Grant-Davie asks in regards to exigence. I included that the e-mail was needed to convince my father, that …show more content…
In the analysis of the class paper you commented, “Was there only one audience? What about Grant-Davie’s distinction between invoked and addressed audiences?” With this comment I re-read my original definition of audience and realized that, although it was correct, I needed to define the two audiences in order to demonstrate my knowledge and properly analyze my paper. I also used this feedback to differentiate between the two audiences in my class paper, even though my peer review partner did not comment on that section. In my final draft on page four, where I was analyzing my e-mail, you stated that I “should include an image here to demonstrate the e-mail.” Your comment was similar to my peer review partners, and because I did not fix it the first time I made sure to include a screenshot of the e-mail in my revision. I decided to include an image of the beginning of the e-mail to match the discussion of the introduction of my e-mail. This helped me give the reader more context to the rhetorical choices I made and why I made them. In the concluding paragraph for my e-mail analysis you also said to, “Explain more clearly how you made these choices because of your audience” when I was talking about how I elaborated on the academic opportunities sororities bring to its members. Because of your comment, I detailed why it was important that I reference these academic