(Translation: English version of Italiano version)
The rhetorical situation is a model for analyzing and composing a text that allows for evaluating different perspectives. These are:
- Writer
- Audience
- Subject
These 3 elements should be visualized as sets, whose intersections give rise to other elements that in turn form the rhetorical situation:
- Writer + Subject = Exigence. Why does the author write that text?
- Writer + Audience = Objective. What does the author want for the audience? Why should the reader read it?
- Audience + Subject = Genre. How is the text presented? Delayed Thesis Essay? Or Mini Essay?
==At the center of the intersection of these 3 elements is the Text.==
It is particularly useful in combination with the entimema. These different sets and subsets can represent the starting material for composing both the thesis of a text and its outline.