CH 9: Bard

Your paper is finished and now youve decided to present it in the format of a speech. As you draft, design, and, deliver any presentation, classical rhetoric may provide ways of understanding the needs of your specific writing situation. Aristotle divided oratory into three main branches based on time, purpose, and content. Judicial and forensic which involves defending or accusing and deals with the past. Deliberative or legislative discourse which concerns politics or policy and typically argues for or against specific actions that might take place in the future. Epideictic or ceremonial discourse generally deals with the present. There is also audience, purpose, and persona that are great tools of oratory. You must have organization. You must translate the ubject matter and text into a form that is effective. You must choose a method of delivery. This can involve stance or posture, gesture, voice, pacing, rhetorical appeals, visuals, embodied visuals, and style. After your all set the only way to perfect your speech is to master the art of the bard with practice, practice, and more practice.