Create Your Own Audience with Constitutive Rhetoric

Finding an audience for your writing can be challenging--so why not just create an audience with your writing?

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0:00 Introduction
1:23 A Taste of Constitutive Rhetoric
5:55 Using Constitutive Rhetoric
10:35 Conclusion

[ryanlikesdogs]

I literally take notes on these lectures. U are making writing feel so feasible.

[victoriab]

‘I’m grateful that you keep coming back’, once I have already identified into the ‘you’ of the rest of the video, was significantly more effective at encouraging me to go look around at the rest of your channel than other forms of address which actively segment first time viewers away from identifying with the audience. Interesting…

[Beckelby]

I recently watched one of your very first videos and noticed a comment calling Kaput distracting and wondered how you would reply as a rhetorician (I just learned this word!) And here you are, answering my question, like two days later! One of you is psychic, I'm convinced.

[liurui]

Thanks a lot. Your videos have been very helpful when I need to write a proposal for an application. I used to be afraid of writing in english as it's not my native lanuage. Now I have changed a lot and started making freewriting a habit.

[victoriab]

I appreciated the constitutive aspects of your rhetoric in this video. Having never watched this channel before, I quickly became one of the plural ‘you’ of your audience, as yes, I felt I had seen the things which you told me I had seen. Even if I hadn’t seen the entire process of channel development, merch etc for any one channel, the idea that I would have appeals to a sense of my self as a broadly rational, analytic person; even if your description of your audience in the ‘you will’ phrases are not entirely correct, they have an element of correctness, and implications which appeal to a specific kind of person, encouraging that kind of person to become a part of your general audience group.

[FreyaFerret]

Hmm, now I gotta examine what kind of audience I’m currently curating 🤔 and then how I might want to change it, if at all

[jeremyalam]

Thoughtful video, as always. Guess it goes with understanding your worldview, developing and being comfortable with your style as a writer, then using those things to create lenses for your readers to see through.

[ormulyce]

Thank you. It's a subject to ponder. I never thought about that.

[jonathanlochridge]

So, do you think Constructive Rhetoric could be used as a framework for fiction writing as well?

[jonathanlochridge]

cool idea, want more on the topic, checking the other video.