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Reading Journal for Grant-Davie

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Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page Grant-Davie, Keith. “Rhetorical Situations and Their Constituents. ”Rhetoric Review, Volume 15, No.2, 1997, pg. 264-279
Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words Keith Grant-Davie’s article “Rhetorical Situations and Their Constituents” details topics such as exigence, rhetors, constraints, and the audience. The piece of writing details major issues, such as the importance of the analysis rhetorical in certain situations. 

Grant-Davie uses  a definition of a rhetorical situation from Lloyd Bitzer, who says a rhetorical situation is  “a complex of persons, events, objects, and relations presenting an actual or potential exigence which can be completely or partially removed if discourse, introduced into the situation, can so constrain human decision or action as to bring about the significant modification of the exigence”

Grant-Davies continues by explaining what rhetors are. He Then describes constraints and audience.

 
Define new terms 

and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author.

 Seminal-(of a work, event, moment, or figure) strongly influencing later developments

Exigence-a case or situation that demands prompt action or remedy
How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?

 

 This reading relates to reading done in a previous course about rhetoric. 
Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion. Why do we need rhetoric?

 

Reading Journal- “Sponsors of Literacy” Deborah Brandt

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Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page Brandt,Deborah.“Sponsors of Literacy”.Comphacker.org
Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words The piece of literature, “Sponsors of Literacy,” by Deborah Brandt explains the use of literacy and how sponsors either teach or withhold it from us. It explains that a sponsor is something either abstract or concrete that enables us to learn literacy or suppresses our want to. Sponsors can be over the radio to television entertainment. They may also be older and often more skilled adults who understand literacy. How well-spoken you were often showed your social standing in society. Social groups differ in from others. They had different access to the ability to learn literacy and different kinds of sponsors. 
Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author. Rumination (Brandt 166)-a deep or considered thought about something.

 Proliferated (Brandt 167)-increase rapidly in numbers; multiply.

 Pragmatically(Brandt 168)-in a sensible and realistic way that is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations.

Compradrazgo (Brandt 169)-the reciprocal relationship or the social institution of such relationship existing between a godparent or godparents and the godchild and its parents in the Spanish-speaking world.
How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?

 

 This article connects to a book I read during high school that talked about how literacy differs through different societies and social classes.
Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion. Should all people have the same access to literacy?