Thursday, March 24, 2011
How Much Is Too Much?
I am really awful at this whole finding rhetoric in everyday life business. However, today I didn't have to go looking for rhetoric, it came to me. When giving a presentation the amount of information that you present in critical. Today a girl in my Africa class gave a presentation on the country Benin. It was really great and informative, but it was a lot longer than the ten minute time limit. She had great information and quality facts, but she presented way to many of them. I feel that it is the job of the presenter to find all of the facts and then only present a broad overview of them all. I don't need to see 20 different charts and hear a bunch of statistics to understand that standards of living have declined since 1965. Rather than showing 10 sides filled with facts about the economy, show a few pictures along with the most important information. I really tried to pay attention, but at a certain point there was just too much information. Rhetorically speaking, she appealed way too much to ethos and logos, and not enough to pathos. I know there is not a lot of room for pathos when reporting facts, but what good is all of the information if the audience isn't even paying attention?
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