Rhetorical situations and genre are connected due to the fact that they both elicit a response from the audience. Like Emily I was also confused when first reading Bitzer's passage, and I think she hit it stop on with what she pulled out of it. I also agree that the best way to summarize what rhetorical situation is "something presenting an exigence that can be removed if discourse is introduced into the situation and can control human decision to modify such exigence." A genera is what each individual thing falls under. Whether it be a movie category, music category, type of car, etcetera. Each category has a specific "task at game" that they try to portray.
Our understanding of rhetorical situations and genres can help us understand everyday writing more proficiantly because they can help distinguish the varieties of everyday writing. By doing so it will help us to better analyze everyday writing just as Claire said. If we learn how to understand these writings it will allow us to apply rhetorical situations and genres in our own writings.
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