| Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page | Rhetorical Situations and Their Constituents
Grant‐Davie, Keith. “Rhetorical Situations and Their Constituents.” Rhetoric Review, vol. 15, no. 2, 1997, pp. 264–279., doi:10.1080/07350199709359219. |
| Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words | In Rhetorical Situations and Their Constituents by Keith Grant-Davie, it talks about the steps a writing student should make to analyze certain rhetorical situations and understand why they happened. For a writing student to understand a rhetorical situation they must first understand the exigence that gave rise to the dialogue. Rhetorical exigence, an issue that demands discourse to resolve it, can be analyzed by using the stasis theory, “a natural sequence of steps for interrogating a subject” (266). The sequence of steps helps a writer find out what the subject of discourse is about, why it matters and should be deemed important, and how to plan a resolution. |
| Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author. | Epideictic
intrinsically |
| How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?
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Because it relates to the rhetorical situations we discussed in class. |
| Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion. | How can we incorporate these situations into the papers we write for this class? |