Speak Effectively Flashcards
How do you speak persuasively under pressure?
How do you take a dry topic and make people care about it?
How do you take a complicated idea and explain it so that it’s comprehensible?
How do you craft a message that will reach your audience?
How do you manage your own emotions so they don’t overwhelm your ability to communicate?
Suggested book
Rhetoric by Aristotle
What are the elements of ethos?
Good sense
Good moral character
Goodwill
Pathos
Persuasion may come through the years, when the speech stirs their emotions 
 what does a good speaker adapt to 
A good speaker adapts the speech to the needs of the specific audience by identifying with that audience
John W Davis called the argument of an appeal 
Victor Frankl
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing; the last of the human freedoms Dash to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
Logos
Clear logic
Deductive logic
Figure out the correct rule and apply it to the fax
Formula for writing, legal briefs
Issue
Rule
Application
Conclusion
IRAC
Inductive reasoning
Use certain specific observations to reach a conclusion
When do you use deductive reasoning?
When you have a general rule that you can apply to a specific set of circumstances,
When do you use inductive reasoning?
When you have a bunch of specific instances from which you are generalizing to reach a conclusion .
Strawman argument
A speaker unfairly represents or exaggerates his opponents position, then attacks the misrepresentation. 
Rule of preemption. What is it?
It’s the idea of not addressing only exaggerated versions of your opponents argument
