Reading Journal
| Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page | Rhetorical Situations and Their Constituents
By: Keith Grant-Davie |
| Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words | This article showed a more in depth and analytical viewpoint to writing. It focused on three writers, Bitzer, Vatz, and Consigny. There is a rhetorical discourse, which is the context in which speakers or writers create rhetorical discourse. This also is a complex of persons, events, objects, and relations presenting an actual or potential exigence which can be completely or partially removed. This basically means that when writing about a rhetorical situation, you see a more complex part of writing. |
| Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author. | Rhetorical Situation: the context in which speakers or writers create rhetorical discourse |
| How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research? | This reading connected to other articles in a way that it gave specific examples and explanations as to what rhetorical situations occur when writing. This article also explained it in a writing and educational way to where it showed me another side of writing. |
| Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion. | I would say my question is how does this new lesson incorporate into essays and does it relate to a specific type of essay, like persuasive or argumentative essay. |