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Over the last week I have written many times. Three instances in particular were rhetorical situations: writing a thank you card to a close friend who I wasn’t going to see often anymore, a college class forum, and sending a text declining a babysitting job. Intentionally or otherwise, I considered many different factors in writing these. Acknowledging context, tone, and other aspects of dealing with rhetorical situations make good writing.

The first, writing a thank you card to a close friend, led me to consider my tone, purpose, medium, design, and audience. There were several differently colored and designed cards I could have chosen from, but considering her bubbly personality, I chose a pink and sparkly one. It was a fun and upbeat design to keep the mood away from the sad feelings of separation. I chose that card as an underlying message that I think that she is a fun person to be with and don't regard that friendship as over. she is an adult friend and so, considering my audience, I made sure it was respectful and semiformal. My tone was one of gratitude and love, as it was my purpose to convey both those messages.

My rhetoric was quite different in the second circumstance, as I was writing a college class forum explaining my opinion on something we read in the textbook. I considered my tone and audience a formal and authoritative one, the forum being written to my professor. I realized that my textbook had already talked a lot about the topic (referring to the context of my paper), and conformed my stance to be in conjunction to that of the book. I did this because it was the textbook my teacher had picked out, and realized that she probably knows more than me on the subject.

Last of all, in writing a text to decline a babysitting job offer, I think about my tone, audience, purpose and context. My tone was apologetic as I considered my audience important to my income.My design included an emoji of a sad face to convey my disappointment. I purposely did this to convey the message that I like working for her. I also addressed the fact that she is aware that our church(we go to the same one) has an event on that day of the week and probably thought that there was a great chance I would be unavailable. This gave me confidence in my response.

In viewing all of these examples, we can assume that all writing involves rhetorical thinking and are part of rhetorical situations. We can be assured in our relationships as we think in a rhetorical way.