Jason Brown

5/1/2012

Prof S. Brandon

ENG112

Rhetorical Knowledge

            Rhetorical knowledge is the context of a rhetorical event that consists of an issue, an audience, and a set of constraints. The two leading views of the rhetorical knowledge exist today. One argues that a situation determines and brings about rhetoric, while the other proposes that rhetoric creates “situations” by making issues noticeable. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetorical_situation) Everybody has mainly used there rhetorical knowledge when they talked to their friends. The rhetorical knowledge helped me to recognize the elements of argumentation in text by using what they call the rhetorical triangle. The rhetorical triangle is when the author talks or writes it text depending on who their audiences are in a time called chronos. It also adapts the writing to meet its demands for argumentation in the context.

 Rhetorical knowledge helped me out when I was trying to argue about something. Like if I got the arguing with my girlfriend about something this helped me get down to the main point about why I was arguing with this person instead of going hours and hours of arguing about this point that turns into something else. This rhetorical knowledge helped me to analyze the needs and expectations of instructors, students, and other audiences.

Rhetorical helped me learn how to bring credibility to my paper, because without credibility in your argument paper how are people going to know that you are speaking the truth about what you are arguing. Learning about rhetorical helped me deliver text appropriately in print, digital, visual, or oral so it can meet all of my audiences expectations and needs. For example say I am writing about an argument to my boss about texting and driving, but somebody else is doing the same to compete with me and this paper is going to help the boss find out who to promote to the next level I would want everybody to use a step in oral communication by listening to me read my paper and tell me that my paper has credible points in it plus it goes with the audiences that I was writing to.