College Composition / Unit 1 CMP 0006 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Context and Kairos
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The idea
Context is the setting of a text, its time and place, and it changes what a writer must explain or can assume.
In practice
The Greek term kairos names timing: an appeal can succeed or fail depending on when it is made.
Where people slip
A text that ignores its moment, arguing about yesterday's question, can be correct and still fail to persuade.
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