Yaaay Bitzer!

Lloyd F. Bitzer, your reading always seem to improve the strength of my vocabulary as well as add to the many Google searches I do to look up words a daily basis. Bitzer calls rhetoric "in short a way of altering reality, not by the direct application of energy to objects, but by the creation of discourse which changes reality through the mediation of thought and action."  Discourse is the term that describes written and spoken communications. I looked up many words.

He talks about three constituent parts make up any rhetorical situation. 1 Exigence, or problem existing in the world. An exigence is not rhetorical when it cannot be changed by human interaction. 2.  Audience, Rhetorical discourse promotes change through its influence of an audiences decision and actions. Members of an audience can function as mediators of change. 3. Constraints, are made up of people, events, objects and relations that limit decisions and actions. I kind of like rhetoric. Someone once said that it is considered the art of persuasion. Persuading people by saying or writing things. Some persuading is easier in different contexts and with different audiences. I can see rhetoric in everything today, its really cool. Hopefully there is some rhetoric in the words of this blog entry. I really enjoy the rhetoric in digital age. Websites definitely have sooo much rhetoric in them. No one should give their credit card number to sketchy website. Ultimately, It depends on that person.

For me to kind of sum it up, It is more believable and reality altering to those who hear someone scream "the roof is burning!" in a wooden house, than it is to those living in an igloo. Just like it is easier to get a kid to believe in the Easter Bunny than it is to their parent to believe in the Easter Bunny. I am so ready to start coding. :)