Rhetoric

Role of the
Rhetor
Influenced by
the situation
but also
influences the
situation.
-slippery
interdependent
To respond to
exigence, thus
creating the
rhetorical
situation.
-rhetor
persuades
audience.

Rice

Circulating
ecology of
effects,
enactments
and events.
-is distributed.

Bitze
r

Rhetorical
situation.
-motive of
altering realtiy,
creation of
discourse.
-exigence

Vatz

-rhetoric
controls the
situation

-the rhetor
creates the
rhetoric and
the meaning of
that rhetoric.

Ede/L
unsfo
rd

-writer creates
the mood. -

-rhetor should
read their own
writing
-writer must
appeal to the
public
-writing with
audience in
mind .

Audience

Culture

Writing

Keywords

Networking
Everything is
connected
-ecology of
writing
-austin, texas

Public / Public
Sphere
Shapes the
public identity.
-always
changing
-born out of the
ecology.

Audience also
plays an active
role in rhetoric

Writing is open
and bleeds into
different
situations
-audience
participates.

-ecology
-rhetoric

Persons who
are capable of
being
influenced by
discourse.
-catering the
writing to the
audience.
-writing for the
audience.
-not as
responsible.

Rhetoric serves
a civic purpose
-constraint on
the rhetor.

- civic
responsibility
-public good.
-real rhetoric.

Writing should
serve a specific
purpose.
-writing should
be a call to
action

Rhetorical
Situation
-exigence.
-rhetoric

-culture can be
altered by
discourse.

-culture can be
altered by
discourse.

-rhetor
-agency
-rhetoric

-real life
readers
-audience
addressed
-audience
invoked
-tension
between

-inherently
involved in the
creation of
medium along
with audience,
writer and
messages.

Speaker role in
communicating
/ communities.
-writer must
appeal to the
public

-writer has a
responsibility
to have a
purpose and
use rhetoric for
an intention.
interdependent
w/reading.
-rhetor should
read their own
writing.

-audience

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Coop
er

Devit
t

Rhetoric exists
directly
between the
author and the
aucdience

-the engaged
writers
-ideas are not
fixed
constructs.
-ideas are
always being
modified by
discourse
Rhetoric is
arranged by
genre which
entails
purposes,
participants
and themes.
-socially
constructed.
-the situation
only exists as
readers and
writers
construct it.
Rhetoric

Summon a
specific target
audience
rather than
focusing on an
individual

Audience is
ficitionalized
but also
present

Genre
conventions
and linguistic
expressions
appealing to
specific
demographics
-social
exchange
-cultural norms
influence the
writer

How he
focuses on the
audience and
the readership
(who reads v
who actually
reads)
-cultural norms
-collective
actions
-Writers and
readers share
literary
competence.
-writers share
interpretive
strategies.

-performing a
cognitive
process.
-characteristics
of writing
determined by
other writers.
-discover
themselves
through
writing.

-web of writers
-imagined
audience to
design a text.
-audiences are
real people

-they have a
better
understanding
of genre to
understand
what they need
to write.

-should not be
defined as it
constrains the
role b/w
audience and
purpose.
-identifying a
genre helps
you make
assumptions of
the expected.

-constitutes a
social activity

-constitutes a
social activity

Role of the
Rhetor

Audience

Culture

Public / Public
Sphere

An intimate
approach to
writing (eg.
Hemingways
that)

-audience.

-socialization
w/ environment
influences tone
of your writing.
-performing a
cognitive
process.
-more
productive to
just write
(unconscious
and automatic)
Genre
interprets
context and
gives meaning.
-constitutes a
social activity

Systems
-ecology

Writing

Keywords

-genre
-form
-content
-dyanmic
-reconception