Blog Post #1

Nicolas Blanton

Mat Wenzel

ENC 2135

10 January 2018

Chapter one was eye-opening because I never thought about genres overlapping. It makes sense that they would, but I just never thought about it that way. Whenever I thought about genres (as little as I did) I only ever came up with one answer. It never occurred that a literary work or a movie or a musical styling could fall into numerous genre categories. When I began to really think about it though, I noticed almost everything could be classified into multiple genres. I personally thought about books I read as a kid and most I would consider to be action but if I delve deeper into the plot I find that most were action AND thriller. Or mystery and drama. I even realized that a few were also comedic with slight romance tendencies. Yes, even I like a good love story.

Another interesting aspect I was introduced to in chapter one was the ability for rhetorical situations to be used as proof or evidence to back up a claim or argument. Most students, if they even have a remote clue of what rhetorical situation means, would define it as the reasoning behind why something was written, filmed, recorded, or produced in whatever way. More specifically it relates to the environment that the author lives in and what they experience on a day to day basis. Chapter one related that the rhetorical situation can be used for more than just a spark for the flame of a literary piece but also a main part of the persuasive strategy. Instead of just discarding the rhetorical situation it can be reallocated to aid the argument at hand.