Daniel Foster

Foster begins by explaining that there are three main ways in which people may used rhetoric. The classifications include practitioners, critics, and theorists. Practitioners focus on the "art" of rhetoric and their goal is persuasion. Everyone practices informal rhetoric in their day to day life, however, formal practictioners are intentional and presice. Critics examine the "how did" and "how might" of rhetoric. The third group, rhetorical theorists, study how sucessful practitioners are and inform practitioners how to achieve their goals.

Foster also explains the new complex definitions of the words "author," "text," and "source." He introduces the term "webtexts" as web "pages" in electronic form on servers. Foster also goes into further discussion of hypertextuality by explaining the five different texts are very closely and precisely linked and at the other end, they are so losely linked that it can even be uncertain who the true authors are. This leads to the conclusion that the future of authorship may have a great deal more to do with creativity than actual writing.