late, yes, but still on the same day :P

I breezed through Bitzer, Vatz, Consigny and Mountford, but was kind of swimming through Burke. The concept of space is fascinating to me as I'm a spatial learner and carefully plan my use of space when I teach and also as I write. I don't like to be cramped up in a little room and don't think students are comfortable either. When I write or create a handout, I always make good use of the space so that not too much space is left. I save a lot of trees that way. :)

The questions of whether rhetoric controls the situation or whether the situation controls the rhetoric was also something that intrigued me. In the end, it's like the "Which comes first? The chicken or the egg?" argument as they affect one another.

The idea of pulpits is also interesting. Aren't all educators preachers in some way? Don't we refer to a main text as well? We conduct our classrooms in various ways. Some stand up on a podium; some sit on tables and talk to students that way. I think it has to do with our personalities as well and how much control we want.

I enjoyed Mountford's article because she referred to literary references. For my secret rhetoric research, Dr. Wood once said I could refer to literary references and it seemed kind of vague to me at the time. I can see now from Mountford's article that literary references in research are just as powerful as primary sources. As little has been documented about women's participation in secret coding or cryptography, I think literary sources might be my best bet.