Take Away

I have learned that Bitzer is all about communication and persuasion. His major concept is the rhetorical situation that focuses on audience, exigence, and constraints. Rhetoric is a huge part of Bitzer's ideas, and I have learned a lot about what that is. I've also learned from Dr. Yancey about the concept of digital texts and compositions. She says that in order to assess digital texts, you must respond to the texts as compositions, and that there are four parts that readers and composers use to create coherence.

Several authors, such as Johnson-Eiola and Arola, touch on the concept of originality, questioning if anything is actually original or if everything is basically a remix of previous knowledge. My question for this course would be is anything original? Or is everything everyone knows borrowed from other ideas? People are influenced by how they were raised, and their experiences, and the people around them, so essentially they get their ideas from those things. But, if someone thinks of an idea, is it because of someone else's previous ideas, or did they just think of it on their own? Does that make it original or unoriginal?