Comments on: Classical Rhetoric 101: The Five Canons of Rhetoric – Delivery

By: Chris Gillis

Chris Gillis — Wed, 18 May 2011 23:43:09 +0000

Would love to see this series continue. Perhaps a collection of the best resources on Rhetoric you have found during your research? Also, could you please tag this article, and the last, with the “rhetoric” tag instead of the “blog” tag so they can be found with the rest of the series? Thank you.

By: Matthew Underwood

Matthew Underwood — Mon, 09 May 2011 11:15:25 +0000

So with the fifth canon behind us, is this the end?

Hopefully not, so where does this series head next?

By: Tsosamotse

Tsosamotse — Sun, 08 May 2011 19:13:59 +0000

Another great article, I’m getting obsessed with this series and I will later research and learn more about the art of rhetoric.

Back to the article. Throughout my Anglican church experience for more than 20 years, I witnessed a lot of these skills being practiced consciously and unconsiciously by our Priests and Layministers during sermon sessions. It seems to me that the more rhetoric skills on delivering the God’s word, the more you appealed to the congregations’ emotions in accepting God’s message. Our church has always provided a platform for horning these skills and this is where many orators who have mastered these skills e.g. Varying your tone and mastering the tone etc. No wonder why many great orators e.g. Martin Luther King, Malcom X have religious backgound that laid a strong foundation for their “deliberate practice”.

This series is very useful for one’s Personal Development Plan and these skills will definitely go in my PDP.

I was hoping you would share the light with the next article on rhetoric series at the end of this article now that you have completed the five canons. What’s next? I am getting goose bumps.

Regards,

Tsosamotse Marvin Hlabi
South Africa, Johannesburg, Vereeniging, Sharpville

By: Tsosamotse

Tsosamotse — Sun, 08 May 2011 04:34:19 +0000

Another great article, I’m getting obsessed with this series and later research and learn more about the art of rhetoric.

Back to the article. Throughout my Anglican church experience for more than 20 years, I witnessed a lot of these skills being practiced consciously and unconsiciously by our Priests and Layministers during sermon sessions. It seems to me that the more rhetoric skills on delivery the God’s word you possessed, the more you appealed to the congregations’ emotions in accepting God’s message. Our church has always provided a platform horning these for many orators who has mastered these skills e.g. Varying your tone and mastering the tone. No wonder why many great orators e.g. Martin Luther King, Malcom X have religious backgound that laid a foundation for their “deliberate practice”.

This series is very useful for one Personal Development Plan and these skills will definitely go in my PDP.

I was hoping you would share the light with next series at the end of this article now that you have completed the five canons. What’s next? I am goose bumps.

Regards,

Tsosamotse Marvin Hlabi
South Africa, Johannesburg, Vereeniging, Sharpville

By: Bruce Egert

Bruce Egert — Sun, 08 May 2011 00:08:43 +0000

This series of articles has been very helpful to me. I speak regularly, as an attorney, before juries, judges, clients and, lately, continuing legal education courses. Good speaking ability is invaluable to me and is something that few do well.

By: Kinana

Kinana — Fri, 06 May 2011 12:41:17 +0000

I have only just discovered this site, timely too.
A few of us are studying argumentation skills and our next gathering is tomorrow. I will let others know of this series. Thank you

By: Brett

Brett — Thu, 05 May 2011 20:59:56 +0000

I’ve read all of these articles, and my middle school debate club just met today. I’ve found that delivery is very important in articulating points; because I’m debating against other 14 year old guys, cases of the giggles seem to be common, and even if someone has a good point, it often isn’t articulated or understood through all of the laughter. I let myself crack the occasional joke, but I at least try to remain serious.

By: Amy

Amy — Thu, 05 May 2011 16:09:50 +0000

Art of Manliness never fails to provide content of significance, value and virtue. Keep up your worthy efforts.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 05 May 2011 15:41:54 +0000

We just had an election here in Canada and how polished you sound really did seem to have bearing over likability. Michael Ignatieff, now the former leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, is a highly-educated man but he was too polished and impersonal. The party suffered the worst defeat in it’s history and that goes all the way back to confederation, in 1867.

Jack Layton, leader of the New Democratic Party, has an everyman quality about him – one of our major daily newspapers here even said he came off as “the kind of guy you could have a beer with”. His party, who was always in third place, is unexpectedly, the new opposition in the House of Commons.

Watch the debate and observe how each of the party leaders performs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGYE2d4LJ5M&feature=related

By: Poultry in Motion

Poultry in Motion — Thu, 05 May 2011 14:35:57 +0000

This is a great series. I wish I had participated in a debate team or something similar while I was in college. This sort of thing is extremely useful in business. Every business deal is a negotiation after all.

Thanks for the article!