"Assessing Your Essay Author's Rhetorical Situation"

The author of Education In A Multicultural Society: Our Future's Greatest Challenge is Lisa D. Delpit. The author is an african american scholar in education. The author wants to improve education and she argues that teacher's should be focused more on how to address the student's problem and solve it in the best fashion possible. The author explains in detail how students may be misread because of their culture. She states that teachers may use different forms of discipline because of culture. The author uses a serious but respectful attitude when talking about the arguments. And the author uses personal experience as the background. The purpose of the audience is to understand where the author is coming from and understand how what the author means when she goes into detail about the culture misunderstanding. The attitude of the audience is probably very serious and attentive. The purpose of this text is to show not only teachers, but students, that there is a misunderstanding about cultural diversity. The author is trying to explain that teachers need to understand the cultural difference of the students. The time and place that is taking place is in today's society and community.