Rose response

At the end of his discussion on the dialogic relationship between academic and public discourse, Rose comments on his students' realizations: they "gain a heightened sense of the potential relevance of their work to issues of public concern" (289). Consider your own academic piece as you begin to revise: what potential relevance can you see your ideas having for the public?

Bitzer's "The Rhetorical Situation"

Discuss how your learnings and insight from this course--WRTC 540 Professional Editing--reflect the three components of Bitzer's notion of rhetorical situation: exigence, audience, and constraints. Please limit yourself to 300 words. This entry is due Tuesday, Feb. 21, by 11:59 p.m.