COMM-2500 Midterm: COMM 2500 Lecture Notes
18 Feb 2019
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Chapter 1 - democratic citizenship and the ethics of public speaking. Civic engagement: giving back, knowing what is going on within the community, voting, advocates ethically for the common good. Communicate effectively and responsibly: effectively professional, eye contact, body language, responsible not hurting or demeaning, respectful, telling the truth. Faculty of observing the available means of persuasion. Began with aristotle: poetics pathos (appeal to emotion), Ethos (credibility of speaker; may be developed in the moment or titles; can quickly go away), Logos (appeal to logic; statistics; reasoning; sources) Cicero: father of oratory/ the five canons of rhetoric. Invention, arrangement, style, memory and delivery: style is where you make it unique. Speaking responsibly: at the cornerstone of classical rhetorical tradition is personal character and civic virtue. Good rhetoric and responsible speaking does not matter if you are not a good person. Great concern for being a good person who was also skilled at speaking.
