This definition is built on by Marilyn Cooper who posits that agency is a property of embodied beings interacting with each other, and that thus agency is shaped by consciousness in the way that individuals have goals, hopes, and can reflect on their own actions, but that the individual actions honed in on by rhetorical agency are still not intended. Additionally, since agency happens in our interactions with each other all actions have rhetorical and agentive rhetorical consequences. 

Marilyn Cooper's Theory of Rhetorical Agency as Emergent Property

Rhetorical agency is a theory that posits that the world changes because of individual actions where individual is not often aware of their intention.

Tara Woods places disability disclosure in academia as a form of agentive rhetorics of risk management. This means that disability disclosure is informed by and happens based on how we perceive others as interpreting and be open to conceptualizations of disability outside the stereotypes of the medical model, but also is in itself a form of risk management in thinking about how others will respond to the disclosure.

Disclosure as Agentive Rhetorics of Risk Management

Cooper, M. M. (2011). Rhetorical Agency as Emergent and Enacted. College Composition and Communication, 62(3), 420–449. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27917907

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