#bazerman

RGS thinks of genre as “rhetorically and socially dynamic, ‘stabilized for now’ (Schryer, “Genre and Power”), ideological, performative, intertextual, socio-cognitive, and responsive to and also constructive of situations” (61) and has thus questioned the relevance of explicit genre instruction without a socio-political element, or recognition of “‘interactionally produced worlds’” (Bazerman qtd in Bawarshi and Reiff 61).

Burke → “rhetoric is a form of symbolic action” (61)

Rhetoric is also “contingent and dynamic” on the relationship b/w rhetor and addressee, specifically w/ relation to identity, and flux of identity too (61)

*so how does this link to the specific rhetorical situation of the Twitter Bio?*

Rhetorical situations “call… forth rhetorical discourse” (63)

Bitzer → “‘power of situation to constrain a fitting response’” (qtd in Bawarshi 64); “‘rhetorical forms are born [through recurrence] and a special vocabulary, grammar, and style are established...the tradition itself tends to function as a constraint upon any new response in the form’” (Bitzer qtd in Bawarshi and Reiff 64)

I had a meta moment while I was reading The Languages of Edison's Light, and it stemmed from buying my book used on Amazon. I read it through the lens of this class: invention. That dictated what I found important as I read--the idea that inventing light was not just about inventing light; the invention of a persona surrounding Edison, of his credibility, of the utility of the product, of this masculine world becoming feminine; invention of a material object facilitated by text... in short, I invented the salient topics as I read. I invented a lens that I then applied to the book, and it was an "invention" lens. 

Chuck Bazerman, Shaping Written Knowledge p. 301

"Open access book publishing in writing studies: A case study" - Bazerman, Blakesley, Palmquist & Russell

Central issue:

"The problem, then, is not that too few books are being published. Rather, it is that a growing number of books are competing for the attention — and funds — of a limited group of readers. The situation is complicated by the rising costs of scholarly journals, which has decreased academic libraries’ resources for acquiring scholarly books. (...) Faced with decreased sales to libraries, academic publishers have covered the cost of publishing scholarly books by increasing the price of their books, which has reduced the attractiveness of those books to individual scholars. As scholars who care deeply about intellectual work, we are concerned that worthy ideas are not finding their way to readers. Although the argument can be made that good ideas will eventually win out, at best some of these ideas are finding their way to the marketplace of ideas far later than we would like. At worst, scholars faced with tenure and promotion decisions will set those ideas aside in favor of others that are more likely to find a market." (BBPR)

Conclusions: