Desiree DeMarco - Takeaway

Both Bitzer and Lunsford attempt to define rhetoric. Bitzer says, "A rhetor is constantly trying to communicate knowledge/persuade the audience," and Lunsford states, All rhetoric inherently joins an ongoing conversion." I think these two go hand in hand.
Some authors, including Eilola & Selber and Arola, Kristen and Adam, discuss the term "assemblage." We already know from class that an assemblage is a text built primarily and explicitly from existing texts, but from this grid, I learned that (according to Arola, Kristen and Adam) "good creative assemblage acknowledges culturally specific aspects of the original text and emphasizes rhetorical sovereignty."
I think I sort of understand what this means- but if we could break it down that would be helpful. For example, what is meant by rhetorical sovereignty?