Hopefully This Is The Right Place!

So I've never read this article, unlike many of you, but by reading the first line of all the other blogs, I feel as if it is difficult to enjoy it. I was actually slightly surprised on how much the text actually was relatable, something most readings in class fail to do for me.

To start off when Bitzer writes about the most popular American writings or speeches he focuses on the fact that a rhetorical address relies on the existence of situation, not that a situation exists only when discourse exists. He goes on to say something along the lines of that all readers have experienced a time where they could or should have said something in a situation but they thought of what they should have said after the situation had passed. I know with myself, this happens what seems to be about every hour.

I get sense of connection in this article to web design when Bitzer writes about context. When he says context is a general condition of human communication and is not synonymous with rhetorical situation, I immediately just imagined how web pages need to follow this for the most part. I envision a web site needs to have a context general enough for anyone who passes by to show interest in or understand the purpose. Then within that be able to use rhetorical strategies to grab the user into using that site or company it is being used for.