{"id":6726,"date":"2007-04-10T13:00:52","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T13:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/10\/did-bitzer-draw\/"},"modified":"2007-04-10T13:00:52","modified_gmt":"2007-04-10T13:00:52","slug":"did-bitzer-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/10\/did-bitzer-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Bitzer Draw?"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">mins<\/span><\/span><p>Did Lloyd Bitzer ever <i>draw<\/i> his situational model? Or are all of the<br \/>\nvisually rendered triangles <i>drawn<\/i> from his textual account?<\/p>\n<p>If he didn&#8217;t draw it (I can&#8217;t find evidence that he did), are responses to<br \/>\nthe model&#8217;s viability fueled instead by its proliferation as an <i>abstraction<\/i><br \/>\npulled (like a rabbit from a hat) out of Bitzer&#8217;s textual account? How did the<br \/>\ntextual model evolve into a disciplinary fixture, a <i>visual<\/i> commonplace?<br \/>\nHow was it translated from text to geometric figure? Should we enjoy free license<br \/>\nto convert anything with three points into a triangle?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ewidem\/454209453\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/192\/454209453_2c2afbec08_m.jpg?resize=240%2C170\" width=\"240\" height=\"170\" alt=\"Rhetorical Situation\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been reading a little bit (not nearly as much as I would like) about<br \/>\nmodels lately. There&#8217;s a small slot in the diss-as-proposed where I will account<br \/>\nfor Flower and Hayes&#8217; process model and the related fracas (simplistic! rigid!<br \/>\nuniversalizing! yeah, so?). I&#8217;m wondering whether it was a moment when the<br \/>\nbaby (visual modeling) was tossed with the bath water (the critical rinse of<br \/>\nthis <i>one<\/i> as simplistic, rigid, and universalizing). The Flower-Hayes<br \/>\nconstruct isn&#8217;t the only visual model floating around R&amp;C. But what are<br \/>\nthe others? Bitzer&#8217;s triangle. Burke&#8217;s pentad. Berthoff&#8217;s<br \/>\nladder. Others? And so I&#8217;m thinking about whether these were first rendered<br \/>\nvisually or textually, whether they were composed first as discursive or<br \/>\npresentational. The production and circulation of the visual derivatives is<br \/>\ncurious, isn&#8217;t it?, if they manifest primarily as a readerly acts&#8211;as<br \/>\ninterpretive moves or as gestures of uptake. <\/p>\n<p>In &quot;Modeling Theory and Composing Process Models,&quot; Michael Pemberton gives us<br \/>\na continuum. 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The re-volution (where local at all points crumbles the<br \/>\ngrand empire, wherever you jump in). The trip from theories to models (home!),<br \/>\nas seems to be happening for Bitzer, Burke, and Berthoff (a la Langer), mustn&#8217;t<br \/>\nbe glossed. But there I go, too easily conflating visual models and<br \/>\ntextual models, too hastily treating them as twins rather than the cousins they<br \/>\nhappen to be&#8211;a whole family of models live at that depot (&quot;Models&quot;) in the continuum.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m trying to get acquainted with them, initially by searching for, among other<br \/>\nthings, clues to &quot;Did Bitzer draw?&quot;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">mins<\/span><\/span>Did Lloyd Bitzer ever draw his situational model? Or are all of the visually rendered triangles drawn from his textual account? 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