Rhetorical situations and genre are connected in a way that can be described as they both involve a situation and how one reacts to that situation. I was very confused when I read Bitzer's passage. However, what I pulled out of it was rhetoric 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." Rhetoric is situational and evokes a certain response. Genre is just another word for category. For example, different kinds of genres of music are country, rap, and hip hop. When something happens that hasn't happened before, one person must make the first response. And off that first response other people go off that first response and so on. Genre is a repetition of a rhetorical response.
We use genre and rhetoric in everyday writing without even knowing it. When we talk about anything, it goes into a certain category. We encounter many exigences during the day without consciously knowing. For example, you're hungry but aren't sure where to eat. That is an everyday exigence. Also, being able to identify rhetoric and genres in other people's writing will now become easier now that i have a steady definition of the two.
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