I'm interested in what people think about Bitzer's example of the writer of fictive eulogies not writing anything rhetorical. Because this reads to me as though Bitzer requires real life situations for a work to be rhetorical. This seems to discount all fiction as non-rhetorical, although I would argue that all writing is responding to and arguing for something. Does anyone have thoughts to help me clarify Bitzer's position on this?
Yancey states that we ought to have a composition major, in order to fill the "glaringly empty gap" between freshman year composition classes and graduate courses. I'm not so sure, as I feel it would reduce the diversity of processes and methods in composition and separate composition from other subjects and majors, which is perhaps unwise. Though, I want to believe that it'd be useful and beneficial. Does anyone have a counterpoint? Perhaps explain the benefits to a university that offers an undergraduate composition degree?
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