The main idea in Kevin Roozen’s article “Writing Is a Social and Rhetorical Activity” is to explain how rhetorical writing is used daily to communicate to and with at least one other person knowingly or unknowingly. He acknowledges that all writing is rhetorical writing. The article includes examples such as someone noting on their hand what needs to be completed when they arrive home from work or school as a reminder. Or how a man adds an entry to his diary to keep track of events that happened to look back on. He provided these examples to show all writing has a purpose and audience. Kevin also uses points of how writing is influenced by others. Kevin Roozen wrote this article to inform people that they use rhetorical writing in different ways everyday.
This week I wrote a grocery list mostly for myself but also for my little sister who was going to the store with me. The list was rhetorical and simple for my sister so she could easily read it and find the aisles we needed to go to for the items. The writing was a social activity because my sister and I both added items we needed to the grocery list. It is important to understand social and rhetorical writing because being able to read text and understand who the author wrote it for and why they wrote it the way they did. Being able to understand a topic from multiple viewpoints helps not only in writing but in verbal communication as well.
