Similar to last week, where we read some theory and then found some examples to

Similar to last week, where we read some theory and then found some examples to apply that theory to, I’d like us to find examples of rhetorical situations in the wild and use the framework to begin to make sense of them. While the presidential statements were spoken and televised responses to a situation, they were drafted beforehand as written statements to be read aloud. We could consider these responses premeditated, which places certain limits on our analysis.
In Threshold Concept 1.2 (below), Andrea Lunsford draws upon the work of Walter Ong to demonstrate that responses to situations involving face-to-face participants are very different from responses to situations involving writing. We should consider this in our approach. For this assignment, I’d like us to choose one face-to-face situation in which we often find ourselves and describe the response(s) that we or someone might make in relation to that situation, and why (perhaps in terms of stock of knowledge or social schema.) Then, I’d like us to find an example of a response to a situation involving writing, either in your day-to-day life (perhaps one of your lifeworld artifacts) or on the internet. Describe the elements of context, of stock of knowledge, of audience and of writer which could influence the response to the situation. Social media may be a great place to look for this kind of thing.