Exigence

I never heard of the word exigence before this class. But now that I know what it is, I definitely see how it is impactful in writing.  At first I thought purpose and exigence were the same thing but they are not. Although similar and they do go hand in hand, there is a clear difference. Purpose is why you are writing and exigence is the event or situation that happened which lead to you write about in the first place.