Take Away

From viewing the grid, it is apparent that audience plays a major role in almost every piece. Although the author’s view of audience may differ, the viewer comes up in every work. I cannot think of an author who doesn’t direct this topic. Even if they don’t say “audience,” they still mention the rhetoric of their work or the effect they want their work to have on a given population.

I can also view on the grid that there is a big emphasis on responsiveness. This comes in many different forms. Circulation is a response to a text, and so is an audience. Even an author can be viewed as a response to an exigence, which we see in Bitzer and further see an example of this in Arola and Arola. Estrem goes into detail of how writing is conversational, and is constantly a response.

A major question I have is if it’s okay to use terms interchangeably like I did above. Can we generalize terms? And is this how we are able to create the theory of composing?