Through writing my research essay so far, I have an intended rhetorical situation in mind. My audience will be pretty much everyone that wants to read it, whether they are a student or professors. The exigence of my essay beyond it being for as assignment is that I like the area of Chinatown for its cheap food so that is my primary motivation for choosing Chinatown as my site. My purpose is to show the history of Chinatown through a community lens, arguing that the growth and development of Chinatown was influenced most by its community and how that community evolved over time. It’s genre/format is easily explainable as its a written essay.

What I need to do to make my rhetorical situation a reality is to format my essay in a way that doesn’t use many complicated ideas and is not all over the place in its focus on the community to make sure that I properly show how the growth and development of Chinatown was influenced mostly by the community. Also, limiting myself to not overcomplicate my essay will help me establish my audience since if students read this, they’d be more likely to understand if I didn’t use overly complicated concepts or terms.