The Rhetorical Situation

First off I want to say that the author was very helpful for me to understand exactly what rhetoric. He also explained what exactly he meant by a rhetorical situation. Although some things at the beginning were kind of hard to understand once it was at the end he had explained some of the things a lot better so the beginning did not seem so difficult to grasp. One of the things that he did that helped the reader to understand exactly what he was saying was giving a specific example that almost everyone would know about, like when he was talking about how the Gettysburg address would not be a rhetoric if it was given today just because the response would not be appropriate for today's time, but was very appropriate when it was given. He also gave less known about examples like the one about the fishermen in the story, it may be more well known then I think but I've never heard of it.
When he first gave the definition of a rhetorical situation I didn't really get exactly what he was saying. After reading the whole thing I think I understand it a lot better. What he was trying to say was that a rhetorical situation can only arise when their is an urgency for a real situation that can only be changed by discourse and has an audience that can be changed. I think that if he had put the definition like that then it would have been a lot easier to understand and more people would have gotten what exactly he was trying to explain.
Even though his definition is a little hard to explain he does a very good job at explaining himself. I think that the way he started the essay was very interesting. It allows the reader to kind of understand what he is going to try and explain in the essay without coming out and saying it, which would have made the paper a lot shorter than what it was. He also does a very good job of explaining each part of a rhetorical situation.