In chapter nine of Envision: Writing and Researching Arguments it discusses delivering presentations. This chapter helps you understand the branches of oratory. While giving a compelling presentation, rhetoric can provide ways of understanding the needs of writing situations with your own purpose, audience, and persona. Aristotle divided oratory into three branches based on time, purpose, and content.
The first branch is Judicial or forensic discourse. This branch involves defending or accusing and deals with the past. It can also be thought of as oratory right and wrong. The second branch is deliberative or legislative discourse. This branch concerns politics or policies and argues for or against actions that can happen in the future. This oratory is beneficial or harmful. The third branch is Epideictic or ceremonial discourse. This branch deals with the present. This branch can be thought of as praising or blaming.
The key elements for oral rhetoric are audience, purpose, and persona. When giving a presentation think about some presentation strategies like words, expressions, dress, props, and persona, to fit the audience and purpose of a rhetorical situation. This chapter gives you questions to help you identify your audience, purpose, and persona. One of the questions are, “What format will my presentation take? Another question is What branch of oratory does my presentation represent?
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