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Tab Title: Purpose
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The purpose is the writer's reason for writing. Determining why he or she is writing helps the writer determine what he or she will write.
Tab Title: Audience
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The audience describes the readership for the essay. To determine how the audience will influence the writing, the following quesitons can be asked - Who will be reading it? What are their expectations? What do they already know? and What do they need to know?
Tab Title: Context
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Context includes all the issues, conversations, and considerations surrounding the writing topic. Nothing is written in a vacuum -- all writing exists in an ongoing conversation, and the writer is advised to acknowledge parts of that existing conversaiton in his or her own writing.
Tab Title: Rhetorical Modes
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There are a varitey of reasons why we write, and these reasons are often categorized into rhetorical modes, such as cause and effect or description.