BIK 2913 Rhetoric - the art of persuasion in speech and writing.
Is it possible to learn how to become a successful speaker? Can you learn how to write good texts? Can you strengthen your professional and personal credibility? Of course you can. The art of speaking and writing can be learned and rhetoric makes this possible. Rhetoric is the art that the Greeks regarded as fundamental to leadership and to leading people. Everybody can learn to be better speakers; everybody can learn to be better participants in conversations; everybody can learn to write persuasively and effectively. Rhetoric helps you convince your audience to accept a point of view or a message. Speech and writing need to be adjusted to the sender and the audience, the issue and the argumentation, to time and place; to what is called the rhetorical situation. The better these elements are coordinated, the better the rhetorical effect.
Day 1. What is rhetoric?
Day 5. Speech and body language.
Six days, 36 hours in one semester.
Final grade i the course is based on a process evaluation consisting of three parts. Part 1-2 are submitted on a given date after the end of the course. Part 3 is performed in class on day 6.
Part 1: Write a speech text (2 pp.) on a topic chosen by the student about a communication problem or challenge related to the workplace of the student. The assignment is written individually, but students receive feedback in group.
Part 2:Oral delivery (7 min) of the speech text with fellow students acting as audience in class. Performed and evaluated on day 6 of the course.
Examination when next scheduled course 40 No 1 Semester(s) Individual Part 1: Write a speech text (2 pp.) on a topic chosen by the student about a communication problem or challenge related to the workplace of the student. The assignment is written individually, but students receive feedback in group.
Examination when next scheduled course 20 No - Individual Part 2: Oral delivery (7 min) of the speech text with fellow students acting as audience in class. Performed and evaluated on day 6 of the course.
Comment: Part 1: Write a speech text (2 pp.) on a topic chosen by the student about a communication problem or challenge related to the workplace of the student. The assignment is written individually, but students receive feedback in group.
Comment: Part 2: Oral delivery (7 min) of the speech text with fellow students acting as audience in class. Performed and evaluated on day 6 of the course.
Kjeldsen, Jens 2015 Retorikk i vår tid: en innføring i moderne retorisk teori 5. oppl Spartacus, Scandinavian Academic Press Opptrykk av 2006-utg.