Krystal Bowen 11:30-12:20 Reading Journal Lloyd Bitzer Rhetorical Situation Summary Bitzer, Lloyd. Http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu. N.p., n.d.

Web. 30 Aug. 2012. Rhetoric is not limited by simple classifications of the speaker, audience, and or subject because they are all too broad. Here it is classified as something that persuades because other forms of writing can persuade or not persuade differently. Rhetoric is instead not the actual piece of writing, or the kind of writing but rather the original reasoning that the piece is written for. Rhetoric is the creation of a discussion that causes its audience to question or act on something. This is why rhetoric can always be considered as a form of persuasion. Malinowski clams that rhetoric is used a primitive language and argues that not all rhetoric can be dissected, using artistic principle. Sometimes what is stated is exactly what it is nothing more. However even those these maybe short, and choppy statements barked my the fisherman are primitive and they are used in the same way that more eloquent rhetoric, is to command, to praise, or to blame, to supply information, and to respond to a situation rhetorical or non-rhetorical. That being said every rhetorical situation consists of constraints that can manifest in the form of people, events, and objects because they have the power to dictate and modify the exigence.Traditions, facts, images, interests, and beliefs are some of the things that can fall under the categories of constraints. Analysis It is evident for me to see the connection between our previous reading and this article because it effortless ties everything together. By defining the vocabulary and providing examples of the main constituents of rhetorical situations which are exigence, constraints and audience. A rhetorical situation can also be described as a catalyst that has been into an existing problem that can only be resolved through the use of rhetorical discourse.Exigence is a problem that is marked by urgency. It can be classified as an obstacle, something being other than it should be, or anything that needs to get done. An exigence is anything that cannot be solved or changed an example being the weather neither through rhetoric and is not considered rhetorical. The next constituent is the audience. It follows a relatively oblivious order due to the structure of rhetorical discourse to produce a change through persuasion someone first needs to be persuaded. A statement so simple but did not truly resonate with me without their use of rhetorical questioning. People are able to influence by the rhetoric and to deliver change to an audience. I found that even though the article had a lot of factual clarification of vocabulary but, the syntax made it difficult to understand it all throughout. I understand why this was introduced to us at this time because, we were gradually taught about Bitzer from other writers plus he has also systematically dissected the rhetorical process.