You have already completed the Rhetorical Situation Research MemoPreview the document, in which you have identified your purpose, thesis, and supporting evidence. Now, given the claims that you will make in your analysis about the constraints and resources of each element in the Rhetorical Situation, what are the reasoned arguments you can make about the ways the situation shaped the speech that responded to it? Each argument should contain at least one full and complete sentence each for the Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning that you use.
Occasion: what argument can you make about the way the event, place, timing, or speaking opportunity shaped the speech?
Audience: what argument can you make about the way the beliefs and values, demographics, or shared experience of the audience shaped the speech?
Speaker: what argument can you make about the way the reputation, previous statements, background, or social position shaped the speech?
Speech: what argument can you make about the way the internal dynamics of argumentation, structure, and language shaped the speech?
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