I enjoyed doing this grid activity. Often times when you read all of these pieces in full some of the content might get jumbled, confused, or overlap. It was nice to see it all laid out into big ideas and cross text comparisons. Two of my major takeaways are:
1. When it comes to basic ideas of joining the rhetorical conversation, it seems that most authors agree that your thoughts will add value to the conversation even if you personally do not mean to. Specifically, Lundsford wrote a short piece about joining rhetorical conversations and it could be seen that other author's like Esteem and Edbauer also felt that texts are responsive in some way, whether by creating emotional responses or literal responses in the form of new rhetoric.
2. Modern authors are excepting and understanding trends in society and how they relate to rhetoric. Many new studies are coming out that talk about the conventions of multimodal compositions and their impact on basic key terms from the composing theory like distribution, materiality, and design. Rose, Shipka, Gladwell, Fiagley, and Jenkins all talk about technology as a new genre and focus on their impact to the writing process.
One question that I still have about rhetoric is:
Will digital media ever completely dominate print texts as far as success in the world of rhetoric or will it always refer back to authorial purpose and goals of the composition?
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