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OCR: Location, format, and audience make up the immediate context for an argument. But context also has a broader focus -the larger cultural and historical stuff around an argument. Who you are (your age your gender your ethnicity, how much money you make and so on who your audience is and your shared cultural experi ience references J0 expectations all inform how an argument is shaped This cartoon, for example wouldn't make sense to you unless you're familiar with two levels of context -first, the Aesop fable about the tortoise and the hare, and second the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, cartoon that first aired as TV series ir 1987. experience