When deciding to continue my education after several years, my biggest fear was my ability to write and convey information in a professional, concise manner, considering I had never really been asked to in the past. However, after reading a study by Eva Brumberger from 2004, I have realized that understanding the audience, subject matter, and context of one’s writing and how they coincide through the Rhetorical Situation ( VanderMey, Meyer, Van Rys, and Sebranek, 2011, p.30) is not only important in essay writing, but in everyday business correspondence as well.
Writers must decipher the information needs of the audience to project the proper context of their writing, as well as keep the reader engaged in the subject. In Brumberger’s study,
