“…Over the past thirty years, rhetoricians have reconceived genres as “typified rhetorical actions based in recurrent situations” (Miller, ; see also Bawarshi, ; Collin, , ; Devitt, ; Devitt, Reiff, & Bawarshi, ; Russell, ). Following Burke (), rhetoricians often define situation as a complex of five interconnected dimensions: scene, acts, agents, agency, and purposes (see Fig.…”