Blog Post #10

The author of When Discourses Collide is Jason Palmeri, who is currently an associate professor of English at Miami University. This text is from the Journal of Business Communication so I’d say that the primary audience is most likely high level academics. This text implies that rhetoric is writing with a purpose. That purpose being either to provide facts or to persuade someone. This text implies that genre is similar to Bitzer’s example of the rhetorical context a person is writing in. The main argument of the text is that the difference in discourse communities (i.e rhetoric) between nurse consultants and attorneys can lead to misunderstandings due to different writing expectations in both fields. The text describes the importance of rhetoric in other fields like law and medicine by highlighting the importance of writers because they know how to adapt different works of rhetoric to fit the audience and context of what genre they are writing in.