April 13

            There are various reasons why I believe we had to read the readings. The most important reason I believe we had to read the reading was to get us to understand how to write with more detail and more understanding.  It was to get us how to understand the rhetorical situation. Also to write in a way that it displays a picture. When you read our writing you can get a mental understanding of what is going on.

            Rhetoric is a large part of my major. I am a communication studies major so I study the way people speak and present their argument.” Rhetoric is what allows you to write (and speak) appropriately for a given situation, one that is determined by the expectations of your audience, implied or acknowledged, whether you are texting, writing a love letter, or bleeding a term paper.” This quote stood out to me because to me rhetoric is the art of persuasion. Your rhetorical situation will allow you to figure out what cues you need to persuade your audience. Rhetoric is not only what you say, write, it is also what you do. For example, when we were in high school and we wanted to attend a party or use the car, we would clean the house first, butter up our parents, clean our room, then we would pop the question. Hoping that are strategies would get us the answer we wanted we played on the rhetorical situation and used rhetoric for persuasion. If we wanted to get a piece of gun form a friend the rhetorical situation would have been different. The rhetoric and the rhetorical situation depend on our audience.

            I do not believe that discourses are hard to join. I believe that we are very observant people. We notice when discourse is different and we put that in our minds and we try to adapt. We know there are certain scripts for certain discourse. For example a college student wouldn’t email a professor the same way they would text a friend. We have learned that those are two different discourses and they both call for very different rules.