Delivery

Steven Lynn

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511780172.006

6 - Delivery

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2012

Steven Lynn

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University of South Carolina

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The teacher who has not a passion and an aptitude for imparting instruction in English, who does not feel that it is the great thing in life to live for, and a thing, if necessary, to die for, who does not realize at every moment of his classroom work that he is performing the special function for which he was foreordained from the foundation of the world – such a teacher cannot profit greatly by any course of training, however ingeniously devised or however thoroughly applied.

Fred Newton Scott (1908)

This chapter deals with “delivery” in three senses: (1) the fifth canon of rhetoric, entailing advice on how to deliver a speech, after one has invented, arranged, styled, and memorized it; (2) the presentation of any text or communication, including everything from the font and paper used to the way a website is organized; and (3) the pedagogy involved in implementing a course in rhetoric and composition. My emphasis will be on the third meaning here, but the two preceding ones are not unrelated to the challenge of delivering Composition and Rhetoric courses most effectively.

ELOCUTION

Tony Bennett, as much as anyone who has ever sung, knows how to deliver a song. Most famous for “I Left My Heart in San Francisco,” he makes any song his own, controlling the pitch, volume, timbre, and phrasing of every note beautifully.

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Information: Rhetoric and Composition
An Introduction
, pp. 240 - 289

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511780172.006 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2010

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