Madelyn Diaz Enc 1101 11:30-12:20 0045 Summary Grant Davie, Keith.

"Rhetorical Situations and Their Constituents" Writing about Writing. Ed. Elizabeth Wardle and Douglas Downs. St. Martins: Bedforf, 2011. 104-116. Grant-Davies article includes a collection of research from other writers who have read Bitzers writing about rhetorical analysis. All of the writers expressed that Bitzer was on the right track to explaining rhetorical anaylsis, however, there were some holes in his research. Grant Davie, with the help of others interested in learning about rhetorical analysis, go more in depth into defining the aspects of rhetorically analyzing a piece of text. This article goes step by step of what a reader should consider, at the same time, comparing what Bitzer stated as well. Grant Davie dived into exigence, audience, and constraints similarly to Bitzer, and explained all of these things to consider while reading more extensively. He emphasizes that the 3 aspects to consider were not thoroughly explained in Bitzers article and addressed ways to rhetorically analyze not only a text, but also potentially a speech or an ad. For example, Grant Davie went into great detail that the audience and constraints were a lot more than just what Bitzer defined them as. He also stated than one of the more important things to do to examine rhetorical situations is to look at the interacting influences. Analysis September 7, 2012 One of the first things I realized in the beginning of the text is that Grant Davie clearly stated a thesis for his article for what he wanted to accomplish. This made trying to analyze his article any further a lot more difficult than if he just left the thesis out. However, I feel like the reason he may have included it, was for the reader to really pay attention and know what theyre reading about because his article mostly defines how Bitzer many not have been very clear to some readers. Thus, Grant Davie wanted to explain to readers that rhetorically analyzing a text isnt as cut and dry as Bitzer may have explained. There is a lot more to it, as well as it is up to you to interpret what theyre saying. He goes step by step in the direction reader should take when analyzing a text, but for the most part, he really wants the reader to understand that they dont have to be limited to what Bitzer explained exigence, audience, and constraints are. Similarly to other writes as well, Grant Davies goal was also to give readers a better understanding to rhetorically analyze a text. The use of other sources of research from different writers he included in his article feed into ethos, as for he wasnt just stated his opinion anymore. He was using other accredited writers to support any of his statements.