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One of the first concepts I gained from this class was the idea of the rhetorical triangle. The rhetorical triangle consists of three points, much like the geometric triangle. The points of the triangle include audience, speaker, and text which were surrounded by the hypothetical circle of context. In high school we just barely scraped the surface of each of these topics but in English 101 we actually learned how to find each of these in text and how to effectively compose about them. In the entering the conversation essay, I lost focus on the fact that we were not writing the paper to our instructor but to people who cared about the conversation of our paper or have already entered the same conversation. Knowing who your audience is was very important when writing papers, because without the audience you really do not have any communication. For example, for this critical rationale essay I know that my audience is the professor of my English 101 class. Determining the text of my essay and essays we have read in class was the easiest component of the rhetorical triangle; because all I had to do was interpret what the rhetor wanted the genre of the paper to be and what their thesis was. The rhetor is the person who creates a text that accomplishes the goals that are set for the text, without the rhetor, there is no one to determine who the audience is and create the
