Journal #6-- Molly Sigerich

1. Bitzer describes the rhetorical “situation” as the nature of those contexts in which speakers or writers created their rhetorical discourse. The differing characteristics of the situations are what inspire each different rhetorical discourse. 

2. When Bitzer uses the term “rhetorical situation,” he is referring to the circumstances of each individual rhetorical discourse. He says that wherever there is a rhetorical discourse, there has to be a rhetorical situation, because the situation represents how the discourse itself came about; in what terms it did. 

3. Exigence represents an urgent need or demand. In writing, exigence could represent something needing to be addressed or answered by a participant in the discourse.