Evaluation of Rhetorical Situations

Evaluation of Rhetorical Situations

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In this post I will be finding three different articles and will be evaluating the author, audience, and context. All of these articles will be relating to my field of study, business.

Social media is reinventing how business is done

Author

• After a google search of author Tim Mullaney, I was able to see that he is the top result. I found out that he writes mostly of economics and has wrote for the USAToday, a well known publication, from 2011 to 2014. He links to his twitter account, allowing for one to see his personal views

Audience

• The audience to this piece would be those interested in how social media effects businesses. This could be business owners, advertisers, or even just the average social media user. This article has a very general appeal.

Context

• The date of the article is 5/16/2012, so it is not the most recent article. The medium for this source is that it is just the average article. There are two subtitles but it reads like an article. 2011 was around the time that social media began to get big but not as big as it is today. If this article was written today the content would be similar but have newer information.

Toshiba CEO, Board Members Resign Amid Accounting Scandal

Author

• Yuki Noguchi is correspondent for NPR and works out of Washington D.C.. She covers things that relate to business. Her special interest in workplace issues relates to scandals. She has worked with NPR since 2008. She grew up in a Japanese speaking home. She graduated from the prestigious Yale.

Audience

• The audience to this article would be those interested in the Toshiba company, those with stock in the company, those who work with the company, or just those generally interested in what is going on in the business world. This article appeals more to some of those than the others. However, Toshiba is a large company so many people have heard of it.

Context

• This article is dated July 21, 2015 so it is fairly recently. This source is a podcast, with the dialogue written after for those not interested in listening to the podcast. The event surrounding this article was a scandal at Toshiba that resulted in many top level Toshiba employees resigning.

Volkswagen emissions scandal: Switzerland bans sale of some model

Author

• Graham Ruddick writes for The Telegraph and for The Guardian, two well known publications. When searching for Ruddick I found out he is the deputy business editor at The Telegraph. I was able to find his twitter handle as well.

Audience

• The audience for this article is Volkswagen owners, investors, and the general public. This also appeals to environmentalists and those looking into purchasing a car. This could be a big turn off to those looking to buy a new car and to investors.

Context

• This article is dated 9/26/2015, the current date so it is as current as possible. This is written as an article and includes a picture relating to the subject. The event surrounding this is a scandal at Volkswagen relating to emissions. This has resulted in models of the car being banned from being sold. 

Reflection

I read the evaluations of rhetorical situations of Katherine and Charles and I think my post was developed just as well as both theirs. I was similar in that I had three different topics but all fell under the same larger category. Seeing that they both did their blogs similar to mine helped me because it was reassuring that I was doing the right thing.