the what and the why of deliberative speech

By Kevin KenealyRhetoric

Dr. Kerri Morris

Future of Reading

Disadvantages: Toronto Star, published March 27, 2012:

“I can’t just circle a word…it’s this incredibly laborious thing that introduces all kinds of loads to the task,” he said. “I can’t just grab a pen and circle a concept and keep going. I have to stop and change tools and change mindsets.”

Disadvantages: WHSV.com, March 22, 2012

Unfortunately, there's no money in the newbudget for even real textbooks.Digital textbooks would cost just $15 each,

butstudents would need a much more expensiveiPad to read those books.

Disadvantages: Time Magazine, March 14, 2012

“We bombarded poor psychology students with economics that they didn’t know,” she says. Two differences emerged. First, more repetition was required with computer reading to impart the same information.

Second, the book readers seemed to digest the material more fully.

Advantages:News & Observer, March 27, 2012

"We asked them to turn off all electronics when they came to school," Jean said. Now, “we have a tool they can use for everything."

AdvantagesShreveport Times, March 26, 2012

While some may assume it to be more expensive to make the move to iPads, the cost is actually less when compared to the cost of textbooks. Each iPad costs approximately $500 and will be assigned to each student for their high school career.

Advantages:Times Reporter, March 22, 2012

“Kids today are living in an electronic world,” Superintendent Bob Fogler said Thursday. “We’re trying to impose an old-fashioned, traditional paper-and-pencil world on kids who don’t function that way. They function electronically.”

Hauser defines deliberative speech as being concerned with expedience and inexpedience, advantage and injury (113). Such speeches are meant to be spoken by the common person (not by elected officials), and involves persuading others to take a course of action

Finances, War and Peace, National Defense, Imports and Exports, Framing of Laws

“Thus one who is going to give advice on finances should know what and how extensive are the revenues of the city” (Aristotle 1359b)

“It is not only possible to get an overall view of these matters from experience in the affairs of one’s own city, but it is necessary also to be willing to do research about what has been discovered elsewhere in regard to deliberation about these things” (Aristotle 1359b).

Ethical Topics for Deliberative Rhetoric

Deliberative Theater Clip

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Hauser defines deliberative speech as being concerned with expedience and inexpedience, advantage and injury (113). Such speeches are meant to be spoken by the common person (not by elected officials), and involves persuading others to take a course of action. Thus, deliberative speeches were oftentimes concerned with arguing for one’s own interests and urging others towards the advantages or disadvantages of that interest (113).

Because deliberative speeches involve persuading social interaction, they usually involve at least one partner to deliberate with – unless of course one is arguing with their own internal voice. An example of a deliberative argument Hauser gives concerns gun control where there is a cause to resolve such issues as the conditions of the purchase, registration and ownership of firearms. In such deliberative action, persons involved should discover the issues at hand, consider all points of view, and allow others to express their opinions (19).