2. Disposition: “What arrangement will make the most sense?”
Make an assertion, support it with evidence, reasoning and an illustration if necessary, make a transition and move on to your next point. One must balance elaborating points with overloading the audience.
Most textbooks go on at length here regarding spatial, versus logical, versus chronological patterns of organization. I generally just teach Plato’s “clever butcher” analogy. Plato said that a clumsy butcher takes a chicken and hacks it all to pieces; makes a mess of the whole thing. A clever butcher, on the other hand, realizes that the chicken has natural divisions, called joints, and uses those to cleanly divide the chicken. So, when organizing a speech, I just tell my students
organizing the body of the speech; more specifically, the use of main points, supporting points,
• 2) the narration would offer background material on the case at hand • 3) the partition would divide the case and make clear which part or parts the speaker was going to address, which parts the speaker would not take up and what order would be followed in the development • 4) the confirmation would offer points to substantiate the argument and provide reasons, details, illustrations, and examples in support • 5) the refutation would consider possible objections to the argument and try to counter these • 6) the peroration would draw together the entire argument and include material designed to compel the audience to think or act in a way related to the central argument
1. Support your ideas with specific, illustrative examples. If there are questions or points associated with your chosen topic,
Helmut Walser Smith is Professor of History and Director of the Max Kade Center for European and German studies at Vanderbilt University and his studies focus on nineteenth century German history. When you crack open The Butcher’s Tale, words like anti-Semitic, ritual murder, and blood libel consume the rhetoric and justifications for outright violence directed towards Jews in the city of Konitz and all over Germany. This book begins with the murder of an 18-year-old Christian gymnast named Ernst Winter in 1900, horribly carved into pieces and deposited in different areas of Konitz. Instantly, the murder was deemed a ritual murder committed by the Jewish community because of the lack of blood found in the body parts, and due to years
In using facts, studies and reason to persuade the audience,
The College Composition and Communication journal published the article titled “Identifying and Teaching Rhetorical Plans for Arrangement” by JoAnne and Leonard Podis which provides methods that students can utilize to arrange writing pieces. The authors explain that the structure of the writing can influence the readers’ retention and understanding of the information and the arrangement of the text can improve the text readability. The article then lists the different plans of arrangements which are “obvious before remarkable”, “presentation before refutation”, “explanation before complication”, solvable before unsolvable”, “agreement before disagreement”, “literal before symbolic”,
As previously mentioned, you must listen, but in a specific way. As someone speaks, carefully consider what is being spoken, and especially, if you’re in a debate setting, listen for any sources from which they derive their information. What you may find is that people generally hold beliefs and opinions with few or weak arguments in their favor.
Introduce the first main point of the argument. Then, provide evidence from the sources. Multiple pieces of evidence should be provided to support the main point.
In life, people are guided by moral beliefs and principles. Whether their beliefs are good or bad, their decisions are based on them. In Plato “The Crito”, Socrates emphasizes his moral beliefs and principles when he decides not to escape from prison. Although Socrates had the opportunity to escape his death sentence, he chose not to do so because he had a moral obligation to commit a sacrifice.
In Plato’s life of a tyrant he is talking about the tyrannical man and how he evolves from a democratic one and what becomes of him once he starts to exist. He goes into talking about how the how he is ruled by his desires to do bad criminal things. Plat says they are the awake when everyone else is sleep. A person who will commit a foul murder, doesn’t let that fact that what he is doing is shameful stop him from doing so. He is saying that the tyrant is bad and does every kind of shameless thing even with his family trying to win him back but being disgraceful and rebellious so to speak is winning. Is the tyrant happy?No, Plato thinks that this type of life is ratchet, that can’t trust anyone and has no friends and is living is fear. This
Aristotle was amongst the first known philosophers to examine morality and conduct. In fact, his approach and perspective towards ethical practice and happiness was perhaps the most influential moral philosophy up until perhaps Immanuel Kant. As such, Aristotle’s moral philosophical approach can be used to examine and understand ethical practices and behaviors. The particular ethical practice that will be examined in this essay will be that of Paul Wagner, the fictional character featured in Larissa Macfarquhar’s The Kindest Cut . Through an analysis of Aristotelian and Kantian ethics and Wagner’s behavior, this essay will seek to identify and understand the moral worth of Wagner’s actions. First however, a concise and relevant summary of
The battle of good and bad has been a debated topic for thousands of years, a fact evident in Plato’s dialogue, Crito. To become aware of the pretenses for this argument, it is significant to understand the meanings of the words good and bad. Good is a word referring to the virtue of an individual, a term meaning something is desired or pleasurable, or it can denote the moral right of a person or object. The term “bad” has negative connotations; it is everything good is not.
His only interest is what will solve the issue for the audience. Make the audience believe that you are selfless. While arguing, act as if the conclusion happened upon. The persuader should express that what he is doing for the audience does harm to him. It also helps to show doubt in your own rhetorical ability, become the underdog.
I also prepared my arguments beforehand. I then supported each of my claims or claims by solid arguments based on factual and objective.
When doing this presentation, I find myself using rhetorical situation a lot. Once all the information was collected, I would take a piece of information and