Analysis of My Rhetorical Situation

In order for a writer to create an effective piece of work, they must understand the different parts of the piece. The writer must understand their audience, purpose, and themselves. If any one of these pats of the triangle is misunderstood, the whole piece won't be srong.

ClkerFreeVectorImages, "Nuclear Warning Symbol", 7/31/2014, CC0 Public Domain

1. Analyze your audience. So, what can you assume about people who might be interested in your topic? Describe them as specifically as you can - what other kinds of magazines, websites, or newspapers might they read regularly? What other kinds of media might they comsume? What demographic factors - like economic class, race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, political affiliation, religious beliefs, geography, etc. - might you be able to guess broadly about your audience? What kinds of things are likely to be important to them? What might they value? What things are likely to be unimportant to them? What might they not value?
The peope who would be interested in my project would people who don't know much about the Fukushima meltdown and the reasons it happened. These people might also be involved in anti-nuclear power groups or are someway affiliated with nuclear power. These people would probably read science magazines or subscribe to science related websites. The higher economic classes are the ones who are most likely to read this project. They might find the flaws of the nuclear plant as benefical to their cause or the massive effects the meltdown caused on the environment. The unimportant parts will be the order of the reactor shutting down and how long it took to do so.

2. Analyze your purpose. So, now that you've thought a little harder about your audience, what do you want your project to do to them? To do for them? How do you want to make them feel? What are the most important elements of this controversy that your audience might miss or misunderstand that you want to be sure to make clear to them? What do you want to make sure your audience knows about the key stakeholders? What should they know about the setting's effect on the controversy? What about the time period's effect on the controversy? What about other key contextual details that you're worried the audience might not understand?
I want my project to inform the audience about the meltdown and why it happened. I want them to feel like they have a better understanding of the meltdown. I want the audience to understand that the reason for the meltdown was due to poor organization of the plant during construction and opperation. The audience needs to know that the stakeholders in the story are very biased and that some of them are not very reliable because of their involvement in the disaster. The time of the event isn't as important as the location. With the disaster happening in Japan, Many people and businesses are affected.

3. Anaylse your author (that is, yourself). What do you bring to this project that no one else in any of my classes could bring to it? How specifically does this story intersect with your own interests or passions or worldviews? How are you the perfect fit for this story you've selected. Really sell yourself!
I bring previous knowledge of nuclear power plant controversies. I don't know everything about nuclear power but I do know about different types and how certain types are more effective and safer which gives me a slight bias as well. I am very interested in nulcear power, specifically Thorium Salt Reactors, but since all controveries concerned with them are 60 years old or on going, I am going with the next best thing (sort of): the Fukushima meltdown.