Chapter 9 in Envision is all about delivering a live presentation. You need to have a rhetorical strategy—even the president of the United States has a rhetorical strategy. The chapter starts out by giving Barack Obama as an example. There are many strategies that you can use while writing an oral delivery.
Classical rhetoricians, such as Aristotle, divided oratory into three branches based on time, purpose, and content. The three branches are judicial or forensic discourse, deliberative or legislative discourse, and epideictic or ceremonial discourse. Just think of a court system… there’s judicial and there is legislative. The Judicial branch defends or accused the deals with the past. The legislative concerns politics and typically argues for or against specific actions that might take place in the future. And the epideictic generally deals with the present.
Skip ahead a little bit and the book goes into transforming your research into a presentation. There are three steps to doing this: selection, organization, and translation. Select your material, organize your material, and then translate it from words meant to be read to words that are meant to be heard.
This actually reminds me of my NEWS 105 class. We had to write an inverted pyramid story, then a broadcast story, and then a web story. Each time we were told to start from scratch (our notes), but that might be different with hard news than with rhetoric. Besides that, though, we had to organize and construct our sentences completely different each time. If they were too similar, we didn’t take out or change enough.
So yeah. Yeah.
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