Reading the rhetorical situation: exigence, audience, purpose, context

By the end you’ll be able to

• Identify and describe the exigence, audience, writer, purpose, context and message of a nonfiction text, using both the headnote and textual evidence (1.A)
• Explain how a writer’s choices show an understanding of the audience’s beliefs, values or needs, including skeptical, hostile or divided audiences (1.B)
• Infer a writer’s primary purpose and intended audience and distinguish them from secondary purposes