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.