In 1962, Lloyd Bitzer received his doctorate from the University of Iowa.
10 Facts About Lloyd Bitzer
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Lloyd Bitzer held the title of Associate Professor of speech at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the early 1960s.
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Lloyd Bitzer continued to be a professor at the institution in the school of Rhetoric, Politics, and Culture until 1994, when he retired.
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In 1968, Lloyd Bitzer published his famous theory of situational rhetoric.
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Lloyd Bitzer's Rhetorical Situation is an extremely influential concept in the field of rhetoric, and is still taught in college classrooms today.
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The family lived in Avilla, Indiana, then in Syracuse, Indiana, and eventually in Carmi, Illinois, where Lloyd Bitzer attended high school and graduated in 1949.
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Lloyd Bitzer then studied at Southern Illinois University from 1950 to 1952 before serving two years in the United States Navy.
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Lloyd Bitzer wrote a key critical introduction to George Campbell's The Philosophy of Rhetoric in 1963.
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Lloyd Bitzer wrote a book on the 1976 United States presidential debates between Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, and Bitzer was president of the National Communication Association in 1976.
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Lloyd Bitzer received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities seven times to lead summer seminars.