a. My target audience is going to be parents who already support vaccines in children. The specific group of parents that I plan on writing to is the parents who are involved with the Parents and Teacher association at Manzanita Elementary School. I chose to address this audience because they work closely with the local elementary school teachers. This puts me at an advantage because the parents and teachers can work together to promote vaccine positivity. With this specific audience I would take the approach of stating the benefits of immunity throughout a community. Since these parent are already on board with my argument, there is no reason to try to convince them to agree with me. Instead, I focus on spreading the word about the pros of immunizations. Since this audience already agrees with me, it shouldn’t be too …show more content…
After closely analyzing my audience, I was able to decide which points to emphasize and the tone to use while addressing the parents. These parents are fairly educated so it’s important to address them with that in mind. Their level of education has a heavy influence on the word choice I use when writing to them. I decided to make the purpose of my letter very apparent because I understand that parents really value their time.
2 . Rhetoric Definition:
i. The art of speaking or writing effectively.
ii. The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques. iii. Rhetoric is a technique of using language effectively and persuasively in spoken or written form. It is an art of discourse, which studies and employs various methods to convince, influence or please an audience. your own: Rhetoric is a way of writing or speaking that uses people’s values and beliefs to successfully persuade them. Rhetoric can be expressed with different literary devices such as, tone, word choice, metaphors, and many more. Rhetoric is also meant to be directed to a specific audience.
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