Post 4: Rhetorical analysis doc 2

My goal is to persuade an undecided college freshman to choose aviation maintenance technology as his/her major. During the essay, I will list the benefits of selecting this major and how those benefits will affect them later in their career. The essay's exigence is that the undecided college student needs to choose a major. The audience with whom I am writing this essay is the aforementioned undecided college students. Many freshman college students are uncertain of what career they desire and what skills they will need to develop to be successful in their careers. Therefore, I believe it imperative that freshmen be made aware of the various options and opportunities available to them. Lastly, the constraints of this essay will be that it must, at minimum, be 1000 words and argue for my major. These three ideas are exigence, audience, and constraints; they establish context within this rhetorical situation. Laura Bolin Carroll, author of Backpacks vs. Briefcases: Steps toward Rhetorical Analysis, states: "In an article called “The Rhetorical Situation,” Lloyd Bitzer argues that there are three parts to understanding the context of a rhetorical moment: exigence, audience, and constraints"(Carroll 48). Exigence is the problem or situation, the audience to whom the writing is addressed, and the constraints are the limits imposed on the writing. 

Works Cited: 

Carroll, Laura. Backpacks vs. Briefcases: Steps toward Rhetorical Analysis, pp. 48.