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  1. Jan 2026
    1. As a writer, it is important to know your audience and to consider which content will be appropriate for that audience.

      This is important for author/reader engagement

    2. For example, you update your status on a social networking site with the awareness of who will digitally follow the post. If you want to brag about a good grade, you may write the post to please family members. If you want to describe a funny moment, you may write with your friends’ senses of humor in mind. Even at work, you send e-mails with an awareness of an unintended receiver who could intercept the message.

      most people understand/practice doing so without even knowing what rhetorical situations are.

    3. After selecting an audience and a purpose, you must choose what information will make it to the page.

      Carefully selecting what to write about plays a big role in communication from the author to the audience.