The authors of the piece on Disability and Accessibility list a number of ways to "build a shared responsibility between instructors and students." Does anyone have their own strategies for doing this?
Bitzer says rhetorical situations must have an audience that serve as a medium of change. What about when we speak to ourselves in soliloquy-esque form, for lack of a better term? Should the situations that prompt these speeches count as rhetorical?
In response to your second question, I think that a soliloquy could be considered rhetorical depending on the situation. Bitzer argues that in order for a situation to be considered rhetorical, it requires a rhetorical audience, which he defines as "people who are capable of being influenced by discourse and of being mediators of change" (Bitzer, 8). With that definition in mind, I think it can be argued that a soliloquy is rhetorical so long as you are in conversation with yourself and are trying to convince yourself of one thing or another. Maybe you talked to yourself when trying to decide where to go to graduate school, and you eventually convinced yourself to go to FSU. I think in that instance, a soliloquy would be considered rhetorical.
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