A piece of writing in my everyday life that I use constantly
would be the PowerPoint slides I make for the meeting I run for Spoon
University on campus. Every Monday I make about 15 slides and me and the rest
of the executive board compiles important information that needs to be relayed
to the chapter whether that is photo assignments or new events or even
important memos from our headquarters.
I think Bitzer would definitely say that there is a particular rhetorical
situation in which I use these. That there is a context in which I as the
Editorial Director create a rhetorical discourse. I think the brainstorming and
relation of information in our meeting would be a part of this discourse. I don’t think they would interpret it
much differently but I think they would pose questions about what type of
discourse the situation brings about, as it is the situation that brings the
discourse into existence.
I feel as though Edbauer would just over complicate
what he claims is oversimplified in the Rhetorical Situation. I didn’t really understand Edbauer,
whatever he means by situs or fixed location, I assume would be the PowerPoint
but it’s not as complex as he tries to make it seem. It’s very much linear in
that I compile this writing and create a discourse with it amongst my peers. I think
similar between the two opinions would be the idea of connectedness. With
Bitzer the idea that discourse and the situation are connected and with Edbauer
the idea that there is this network space of flows and connections. Which I
think is very applicable to what I do with my PowerPoint; there is a creation
of connectedness within my meetings all of which roots back to this public
forum of a PowerPoint.
This public
and shared platform also creates a connectedness that allows users to click
back and forth to access information. Also Edbauer’s suggestion that discourse is formed through a
series of ideals fits in with this example due to the fact that the discourse
created in our meeting is series
of ideas and thoughts.
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