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How can understanding the concepts of “rhetorical situations” and “rhetorical reading” be useful to you as a student, a reader, and a writer? How do you think the two pieces you read for this week can help you achieve the following goals:

• Understanding how writers construct texts persuasively (or not)?
• Understanding how readers construct meaning(s) from texts?
• Understanding what it means to say that knowledge is constructed?
• Understanding the concept of “rhetorical situations” and applying it to your reading and writing?

 Students, readers and writers all interpret the concepts of rhetorical situations and rhetorical readings. Understanding rhetorical situations and readings can be useful to me as a student because, like other students, I think about situations differently. These concepts of rhetorical readings and situations help with the various readings and assignments assigned by teacher of all subjects as a student. Rhetorical readings and situations are useful to me as a reader because thinking rhetorically helps me develop thoughts about the next scene, and I have better reasoning for why an incident happened. As a writer, understanding the concept of rhetorical situations and rhetorical readings are beneficial because reading rhetorically gives me more ideas and helps me develop and express my ideas more thoroughly.
     Writers construct text persuasively to engage a reader in their writing. While engaged, the reader constructs the meanings of the text by reading rhetorically and analyzing the writer’s text. The reader analyzes the text to understand the exigence between the rhetors that the writer is trying to portray. They also try to determine the discourse of the writing to identify the facts and definitions of the writing. When knowledge is constructed, it means that knowledge is something that is built up in an individual in order to make sense to them. Knowledge is not something that will just come, like walking, but it is built from the different experiences and ideas that a person gains. Rhetorical situations will definitely help my reading and writing because the more I think about situations rhetorically, the better my reading and writing will become.

 

As a reader, writer, thinker, student this forum post shows how I develop ideas and interpret meanings as a reader. It simply explains how rhetorical readings and situation will effectively advance my reading and writing as a student.