Questions about the The Rhetorical Situation poster

What’s on the The Rhetorical Situation poster?

9 entries in 2 groups. Five things to settle before drafting. The situation: Exigence: the problem calling for words, Audience: who can actually ac…; Consequences: No exigence, and there is nothing to say, Wrong audience, and nothing c…. Bitzer put exigence first: rhetoric responds to a situation. Others answer that rhetoric also creates the situation it responds to.

Who is the The Rhetorical Situation poster for?

The Rhetorical Situation belongs to the Communications & Media section rather than to a school year, because humanities is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning rhetoric & argument can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.

When should you use the The Rhetorical Situation poster?

Before writing anything intended to move an audience to do something. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so The Rhetorical Situation belongs on the wall where that humanities work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with The Rhetorical Situation?

Kinds of Claim, The Five Canons and Deduction & Induction sit alongside The Rhetorical Situation in the Communications & Media section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Kinds of ClaimThe Five CanonsDeduction & Induction

Is the The Rhetorical Situation poster free to download and print?

Yes. The Rhetorical Situation downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Communications & Media section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence

What size does the The Rhetorical Situation poster print at?

The Rhetorical Situation is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of The Rhetorical Situation loses nothing.Printing guide