Rhetorical Moves
Because the reader is responsible for creating the argument, she is also responsible for the rhetorical moves involved in the argument. For example, say you're moving through documents on the Web, and your current focus is hypertext theory. You begin formulating an argument about what you think hypertext is all about. At one point, you come across a page that lists hypertext resources, people doing work in hypertext theory--a list authorities, if you will. Since this site is annotated, you find that one of the works listed deals with an issue you've been thinking about: reading and writing processes specific to electronic texts. From there, you jump to University of Baltimore Professor Nancy Kaplan's essay to find what she says corroborates your thinking. By looking to Kaplan, a respected hypertext theorist, you've made the rhetorical move of appealing to an authority.
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