SPCH275 Week 7 Speech Criticism Assignment Latest 2017 August

Use the template provided, in addition to the handout about the Canons of Rhetoric, from the Files section to write a critique of a presentation selected by your professor. Save your file with the following naming convention: Tara Mills SPCH275 Week 7 Speech Criticism

General Rationale

This document contains the instructions for the Speech Criticism Assignment. It is designed as an opportunity for you to observe and critique a presentation in a formal manner using the canons of rhetoric as a framework.

Instructions

1. Carefully listen to and view the assigned presentation for this assignment. Review your professor’s announcements for the specific presentation(s) for this assignment.

2. Write an introductory section that gains the audience’s attention, gives a sense of your overall impression of the presentation, and sets up the rest of your critique.

3. Write a section about the invention canon of rhetoric as related to this presentation.

4. Write a section about the arrangement canon of rhetoric as related to this presentation.

5. Write a section about the style canon of rhetoric as related to this presentation.

6. Write a section about the delivery canon of rhetoric as related to this presentation.

7. Write a concluding section that summarizes the major critiques of the presentation and ends comfortably.

Additional Expectations and Suggestions

This should be three or four double-spaced pages.

Use headings to identify clearly which canon through which you are evaluating. The four middle sections should be relatively equally developed.

Use the Questions for Canons of Rhetoric document in Doc Sharing to generate ideas for content. You are not required to answer every question or prompt in that document.

Aim to write this in third person, and use examples to support your ideas.

Write in complete sentences, and use transitions to connect the sections into one coherent critique document.

Check carefully to ensure that your spelling, grammar, syntax, and overall writing style are professional or college level. This should not show sloppy writing.

The remainder of this document gives some general formatting that you may use. Delete this first page before submitting it to the dropbox.

Save your file with the following naming convention: First Last SPCH275 Week 7 Speech Criticism Assignment.

[Name]

SPCH275: Public Speaking

[Title of Presentation] Critique

[Date]

Presentation available at [URL]

Introduction

Invention

Arrangement

Style

Delivery

Conclusion