1. how would you change your messages and/or behaviors to meet Aristotle’s three functions? In other words, how would you adapt your speech when informing, persuading, or commemorating?
Assume I give them a speech on developing a future career plan, The message of this speech needs to be altered when adopting different functions.
Firstly, the goal of inform is to present information rather than necessarily convince your audience. When I try to give the speech to my discussion group, I will focus on giving the collected information of some facts about the career plans and avoid some personal opinions in the speech. Since this is an informative function of rhetoric, the important thing I need to make is to tell my audience some information
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First of all, I would use facts, examples, statistics to illustrate the importance of building a career plan is to meet the types of logic in Aristotle’s proof. As Professor Tusing mentioned in lecture 7, people should utilize all logic on their side to explain why they are right and make the audience believe (2017). By doing logical reasoning, it can eventually make my audiences have the same common view on speech.
Then, the emotion also needs to be highlighted. Tubbs pointed out that the face-to-face communication mainly relies on three sensory organs, which are hearing, sight and touch (Tubbs, 2014, 13). I need to convey both passionate words and nonverbal behaviors to my group. It would require me to utilize some postures, touches, variable voice tone, even controlling my pitch to meet the part of emotion.
Finally, since ethics emphasize on source credibility, I should pay attention to the accuracy and authority of information. I would use the reliable online library at school to support my speech. In addition, from the perspective of humanities, I also need to build a virtuous character to appeal my audiences when giving them an important speech.
3. what changes would you make (or not) to meet Bitzer’s three demands of a rhetorical