Rhetoric

In Grant-Davie's article, he quotes Bitzer's definition of a rhetorical situation where "the context in which speakers or writers create rhetorical discourse."  My example of using rhetorical discourse comes from my WRIT 371 course that I took this past summer.  We had to create a multi-model project where our audience was the class.  For this, I focused on an issue that all my classmates could easily relate too: How the internet and social media sources influence our learning and education.  I focused my argument around the different uses for blogs, Facebook, and email.  Each of these are used to present information to an audience, each for a specific reason.  Blogs can focus on any topic, and and be as long or short as the author would like, whereas Facebook statues are generally short and to the point, and emails can be as formal or informal depending on the authors audience.

My project can be viewed at http://jwilsonwrit371.blogspot.com/2012/06/critical-photo-essay.html 


For this project, audience was the main focus and how the author, depending on the presentation of the information, focused on addressing the issues they were discussing.