The Elements of Rhetoric -- How to Write and Speak Clearly and Persuasively: A Guide for Students, Teachers, Politicians & Preachers by Ryan N. S. Topping

Author:Ryan N. S. Topping [Topping, Ryan N. S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Writing
ISBN: 9781621381969
Amazon: 162138196X
Goodreads: 31159610
Publisher: Angelico Press
Published: 2016-06-24T04:00:00+00:00

Subject & Object Level + Hearer = Speaker’s Aim

Academic Topics Private to teach Restrained

Theoretical or practical Semi-public to please Mixed

Practical matters Public to move Grand

Your ingenuity and your sweat do count. But to persuade others, you must learn to submit yourself—your ambitions, your personality—to the purpose of your talk. You are there to serve. Respect the triangle. Match means to ends.

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1 Aristotle, Rhetoric, 1.3. (trans. Ross)

2 St. Augustine, On Christian Teaching, trans. R.P.H. Green (Oxford: OUP, 1997), 4.139–40.

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