Five Canons of Rhetoric

Out of the five canons of rhetoric, I truly believe that delivery is the key to a successful piece of rhetoric. Delivery is the way that the audiences receives and perceives the information given to them. One can have extremely intellectual and quality information that they want to share with a class; however, if someone presents it in a monotone, boring, uninteresting manner — it will not entice the audience which causes them not to listen. Therefore, why spend hours of brainstorming and prewriting (invention) if your information is not going to be heard and shared if the delivery is off? Arrangement is also very important. But one still organizes and arranges their material in an efficient manner, but still presents it in a boring matter than it will not be learned. Style, to me, somewhat goes hand in hand with delivery because it is a sector to delivery; meaning that the presenter will choose what type of style they want their delivery to be perceived. It allows people to do their own thing and discover their own stylistic formatting when delivering. With this in mind, people could still have a quality style in mind, but if the delivery fails, then it does not matter in the first place. Again, memory is definitely another aspect to successful delivery, but it is not it within its entirety. It is crucial to come up with a system to memorize your information so that you can deliver information in a logical and coherent manner. But still, if your information is scattered throughout and you do not remember all of the content you were supposed to present, as long as you present and are positive with the delivery than it can still be perceived well. All in all, if you have 4/5 of these canons, but do not have proper delivery, than your information will not be completely heard or learned as intended.