In english 101 we had many many different essays, but many had to deal with rhetoric. This pretty much involved my purpose of my piece, audience, genre, stance and media. There was a paper that we had to write where we had to pick two articles that were based on the same topic, one being scientific and the other being a mass media article. we had to analyze these papers, but we had to analyze them in order for a certain audience could read them. For example My topic dealt with head injuries in hockey for minor league hockey players. i couldn't simply write as if i was talking to someone on my hockey team, but instead i had to write as if my audience had never even heard the word hockey. also in addition to the audience, another main concern that dictated what i wrote was the stance ii actually took in order have a good argument that i could support enough to keep the audience interested. if my stance was irrelevant to everyone residing my paper then i would not have exactly went in the correct direction in relation to the situation. thats why i tried to hit soft spots in some parents, even if their child has never played hockey. the fact of being a parent and protecting your children can be brought to light, not just only hockey parents.