Bitzer defines rhetorical situation as “thoughts on a circumstance”.
*Persuasion – although he sees it as more than such, discourse requires persuasion.
*Fleshed – discourse requires fleshing out your points to make sense
*Discipline – you must be able to remain calm, and to the point
A Rhetorical situation in my own definition is a situation that causes thought. A situation that causes inner discourse and “rhetoric” between yourself (or and yourself) and another party. Rhetoric allows room for questioning and bring forth discourse the option for dialogue.
An example of rhetoric would be the discussion on life and how we got here. There are different sources that provide different answers and each source has a writer (purpose), a reader (audience) and text (genre(which we also discussed before hand where I said I believe it to be objective)). Rhetoric brings forth the “exigence purpose” and causes discussion that requires us to be persuasive, by fleshing out our views and remaining disciplined as such.
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The use of how we got here as an example of rhetoric situation is a great choice. Its something almost everyone has an opinion on and is a never-ending topic. Using that as an explanation would really make sense to anyone you’re trying to explain rhetorical situation to.
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The way you defind rhetorical situation is kind different than my and it is very interesting.
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And your ideas of the article Bitzer is really clear and easy to follow through.
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Tyler, a neat concise summary of Rhetorical Situation. I think the interesting thing about it is that it is applied in daily situations all the time, over the most mundane things, like “oh can you take out the trash” or “oh this or that”. All the time people are persuaded to action because of some imperfection. Nothing will ever be perfect so Rhetorical situation will always have application.
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I really like how you break everything down and give the definitons of what you’re talking about. The way you write your blog posts really help me understand the topic even more. It’s very easy to follow and a great way to break down large text.
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I really like how well you expressed your definition of rhetorical situations. You also did a great job of also describing and analyzing Bitzer’s definition. I think you could have gone deeper into your example of the rhetorical situation. Just saying “life and how we got here” as an example is too broad.
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The point was to be broad and let the ideas carry the rhetoric.
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