Before revision: His topics for speech critique include: Speaker's personality Character of the speaker (how the audience views a speaker) Audience Major ideas Motives to which the speaker appealed Nature of the speaker's proof (credibility) Speaker's judgment of human nature in the audience Arrangement Mode of expression Speech preparation Delivery Effect of the discourse on the immediate audience and long-term effects According to Mark S. Klyn, author of Towards a Pluralistic Rhetorical Criticism, "The Literary Criticism of Oratory" provided "substance and structure to a study which heretofore had been formless and ephemeral [...] it literally created the modern discipline of rhetorical criticism."
After revision: His topics for speech critique include: Speaker's personality Character of the speaker (how the audience views a speaker) Audience Major ideas Motives to which the speaker appealed Nature of the speaker's proof (credibility) Speaker's judgment of human nature in the audience Arrangement Mode of expression Speech preparation Delivery Effect of the discourse on the immediate audience and long-term effects According to Mark S. Klyn, author of "Toward" a Pluralistic Rhetorical Criticism, "The Literary Criticism of Oratory" provided "substance and structure to a study which heretofore had been formless and ephemeral [...] it literally created the modern discipline of rhetorical criticism."