Building off of the first set of readings (Bitzer, Vatz, Biesecker, and Rickert), I plotted out a pattern where nodes and connections grew out from the authors-works into the primary ideas that they wrote about and how I saw them bridging between other author-works. As an example of the connections I drew, I saw the major theme of “rhetorical situations” (obviously found in all the works as curated together) as the main node through which each author, in turn, wrote and discussed.

Color-coding the authors, I made connections between how each covered rhetorical situations and, as the following screenshot shows, branched off accordingly.