D#3, HW#6, Analyzing the Rhetorical Situation

Topic: My topic is about how there is not enough being done about the issue of poverty in America. This applies to both the United States government and the citizens who live in America.
Context: The context of this paper will need to be current and focus on poverty how it is right now and how it will become in the future, not so much on how it was. When reading this paper, people may think that they cannot help poverty because of lack of money, so I will need to discuss ways that people can aid using little or no money. The government has the ultimate power in aiding poverty, but every person is able to help in some way. There is nobody who is completely unable to aid people in poverty. So everybody has some amount of power in solving this issue.
Purpose: The purpose of this research paper is to motivate people to start aiding people in poverty. I believe that a big portion of Americans today only think about themselves and do not see what is going on around them. There are millions of people suffering, and hundreds dying because they cannot afford or are unable to take care of themselves. If people volunteered time or money to aid people in poverty, there would be a huge drop in starvation, sickness, and even deaths. There are too many people in this "great country" who are in stricken with poverty. I am also motivated to write this research paper because of events that have occurred in my own life. I have had friends and family who are/were forced to live out of their vehicles, and I have witnessed a death because nobody was willing to give up a few minutes of their time to aid their fellow citizen who was suffering in poverty.
Audience: I'd like for my audience to be average American citizens. They are the ones who can make a difference in the lives of people in poverty.
Author: I will be the author of this research paper, as well as people who have written about this topic before, people who have written opposing views regarding this issue, people who are/were affected by this issue, and people who are currently involved in aiding those in poverty.

The research proposal is different than the research paper in that the proposal is basically stating what you will be talking about in your paper. In the proposal you will give an overview of the rhetorical situation, and in the paper, you will discuss the items (context, purpose, audience, author) in detail