Reading Journal
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| Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page | Author(s). “Title of Article.” Title of Journal, Volume, Issue, Year, pages.
Bibliography grant-davie, keith. rhetorical situations and their constituents. tyler and francis ltd, 1997. rhetorical situations and their constituents, http://www.jstor.org/stable/465644. |
| Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words | The article written by Keith Grant-Davie discusses the steps a writing student should take to analyze rhetorical situations to understand why they happened. This piece discusses both rhetorical exigence and discourses and how to find each one when writing. I learned a lot about discourses in writing and some ways to find and solve it. The main objective of discourse is to bring the audience to a central agreement and find a solution to fix the issue. Discourses are often solved completely but sometimes partially. Discourse can be addressed to audiences such as the general public or colleagues. Other times it is invoked towards people who the rhetor hopes to reach and the “roles suggested by the discourse itself” (270). |
| Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author. | Rhetorical exigence, an issue that demands discourse to resolve it can be analysed by stasis theory |
| How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?
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This relates to articles from class and the podcasts we listen to because it all teaches us important strategies to use when it comes to reading and writing. |
| Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion. | Have you ever used these rhetorical strategies in your writing before? |