Caroline Harms

Ms. Stacey Dearing

ENGL 106
17 April 2015
Rhetorical Situation Memo
The following memo will serve to explain my rhetorical choices for my audio essay:
1.

Audience:
The audience for my audio essay is the listeners of a talk show known as the Creative

Corner. This talk show often interviews artists. In order to match my essay to this audience, I
chose to alter my literacy essay as a story about my childhood and my development in my art
literacy to common responses that an interviewer might ask about a famous artist. This is
because in this rhetorical situation I am a successful, well-known artist and I accredit how far
Ive come in art to my mom sponsoring my art literacy as a child.
2.

Purpose:
The purpose of my audio essay is to express how my art literacy shaped who I am today. I

want to explain to the listeners of the talk show that having a strong supporter of art, my mom,
gave me the tools to grow as an individual. I know my success as an artist comes fundamentally
from my art literacy sponsor. In order to achieve this purpose I emphasized small details and
conversational parts of my essay. This is because the importance of the little details about art is
that I still think about and follow them today.

3.

Genre:
The genre for this assignment was an audio essay. However, within that format, I chose to

present my essay as an interview because it allowed me to answer personal questions about my

life in a professional setting, the Creative Corner. This genre especially emphasizes my success
due to my literacy in art. By having me be a very successful artist, the audience becomes aware
of the power having or being a sponsor of literacy can have on a persons life. Though this
rhetorical situation places me as a famous artist rather than the college student I am, it isnt far
from the truth of the confidence in art I have today.
4.

Stance:
The stance of my essay was for others to realize the influence and importance of developing

a literacy. Literacies are unique to people and can mold them to have passions and talents in
whatever they find themselves striving for. In this interview I refer to the need of parents to be
sponsors of their childrens art literacies. Though my stance goes further than this, that children
are very easily influenced and need a positive sponsor to help develop their passions in life.