Rhetorical Situation

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a thinker" (29). When our professor reads our writing it gives them a better understanding of the writer, their thoughts, and imaginations expressed in words. Every kind of writing has its own audience they imply to and therefore it is important for a writer to know who their audiences are. Knowing your audience helps you to make decisions about what information you should include, how you should arrange that information, and what kind of supporting details will be necessary for the reader to understand what you are presenting. Audience also influences the tone and structure of the document. In Craik's article, "Memory Changes In Normal and Pathological Aging," he states, "Declining memory abilities are reported by virtually all older adults and give rise to the greatest number of complaints about aging in older people" (343). This shows that the audience Craik is mostly implying to would be older adults because those are the kinds of people who experience declining memory loss. ...

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point of view. For example, in the article "Memory Changes in Normal and Pathological Aging", the purpose of this article was to inform others how memory loss occurs as one ages. A writer can have many purposes such as to inform the reader by providing them information, persuade or influence, and entertain. In this case Craik was trying to inform his audience in his article by giving factual information about memory loss and its symptoms.

Persona is another component of the rhetorical situation which is the way the writer presents there selves in the text. Many concepts such as the way the writer includes voice, tone, attitude and the words they use in a text describes the persona of ...

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