CA's Thoughts on "Habitation"

As we talked in class on Thursday, the question of rhetoric as decorum is something that is brought up at the end of "Habitation." I thought about this meaning over the weekend while I was working on other things, especially the Clemson Forensics Compeitition that was here on campus this weekend. Each person and team had a certain way and demeanor about how they competed, how they treated other people, and the personal integrity that had for the field of forensics (just as a reference, Forensics is competitive speaking, like a speech team, and not like CSI Crime Scene Investigation).

Decorum in rhetoric, as well in a speech competition, is a prue process with a place between action and production with no stability across situations since it represents a constantly moving process of negoiation. Decorum also has flexible standards that change under context with a set of rules that is appropriate for a certain situation.

I want to end this discussion with a thought by the author of this piece that shows just how important rhetoric and decorum is when preparing speeches or public presentations. As I read in class...On page 62, Michael Leff writes "That is, it works to align the stylistic and arguementative features of the discourse within a unified structure while ajusting the whole structure to the context from which the discourse aries and to which it responds."