Takeaways - Brittany Hawes

Two things that I took away from these readings and the grid that we worked on together in class are the multi-modalities of the key terms audience and circulation.

Lunsford and Bitzer both talked about targeting your audience and deciding the best method as to appeal to them. A text's audience serves as its purpose, in a way. Without an audience, a text would just exist and wouldn't have an effect on people or the way that things are viewed. An audience can also serve as circulation because it can travel through the people who read/witnessed the text by word of mouth.

Circulation is talked about by both Rose and the Arola siblings. Circulation is the way that a text travels. It can travel through word of mouth, by sending it through an email, by posting it on a weblog, as discussed by Miller and Shepard. Circulation can potentially form new audiences because of spreading to new corners of the world.

Overall, the grid showed me that there are both similarities and differences between what the rhetoricians were describing. Although the basis are the same on the key terms, some of the rhetoricians have different viewpoints on them and how they should be used.

Brittany H