Question

1. An esteemed teacher of Rhetoric at The University of Iowa, D.C. Bryant, wrote that rhetoric was the art of adjusting ideas to people, and also of adjusting people to ideas. Please explain your understanding of these ideas.

2. Please explain what it means to organize your remarks.

3. Please explain what is most important in a speech: content, or delivery? Tell why you think so.

4. What is the best type of supporting material to convince your audience?

5. Please explain your idea of credibility.   

(For speech class) we are currently reading the book The Natural Speaker so if you have read the book please answer based on that.

Answer 1

1. The art of adjusting idea to people and adjusting people to ideas. These ideas reflect a sense of persuasion of ideas and people both. Ideas should be in the way that it can attract and persuade many people towards it. Ideas should relate the people from different aspects of their life and provide them a positive level of enhancement.

2. It means to be the positive, persuasive and motivative way which should be indulged in people's life. Ideas should be adjusted to the people, means ideas should be in the way that it reflect the real life of a person, ideas should have positive impact on the people's life.

3. The most important thing in a speech, content or delivery is the level of connectivity of that speech to the real world.and its listeners Speech will be impactful and usable only if it does have impact on its listeners. The more real life indulgence is there in the speech, the more it have impact on audience. A successful speech, content and delivery will also have strong impact on its audience. Persuasion in speech is also very much important.

Speech has that extents of power that it can motivate thousands of people at a single time only by having strong connectivity and persuasion power.

4. The best type of supporting material to convince the audience is strong delivery with strong and real examples. If audience feel connected and properly listen out everything then they will surly get convinced.

5. A natural speaker always speak all the natural and real things and aspects which were going on in the world. Real world example and experiences provide a level of credibility to the speaker.

For example Prime Minister of India is addressing all the people of India during this pandemic situation of COVID 19, while his addressing process, a great level of credibility towards all the citizens of India is clearly seen out through his speeches. He persuade all the citizens to follow the lock down rules in order to stay safe from Corona virus.