"Keywords in Composition Studies" by Peter Vandenberg

In this piece of wonderful prose, Vandenberg is elaborating upon the various aspects one inherently abides by when relating to Rhetorical analysis and its various functions. He begins with Audience, a very important aspect of Rhetoric, and discusses how one can run into problems if their understanding of an audience is that they (they being the audience in this instance) are a fixed variable within the Rhetorical scenario, thus limiting oneself in further discourse; and eventually goes on to describe other very important aspects when forming Rhetoric such as Coherence, Form and structure, process, and inevitably, Rhetoric itself. These definitions and examples are much more in depth, understandable, and approachable to the audience, and thus serve to clearly explain what one needs to do in order to properly form Rhetorical thoughts and conduct productive reasoning in situations in which Rhetoric is needed. Vandenberg is not only keeping a nice, balanced structure while writing this piece, but lays out his discussion very easily and everything in the piece seems to blend and coincide rather nicely throughout its length.