{"product_id":"durable-design-classical-oration-for-speeches-and-essays-9781475087598","title":"Durable Design: Classical Oration for Speeches and Essays","description":"Classical design for the modern communicator. This elegant guide to organization brings to life the time-honored art of arranging one's thoughts into a cohesive piece of thesis-driven communication, whether oral or written. The particular method of organization under discussion here is that of classical oration, a flexible and robust system for ordering the components of a speech or an essay so as to maximize the rhetorical impact on a given audience. After a brief introduction, the book is arranged in two parts. The first part defines each of the six components of classical oration, and the second part delineates a suggested sequence for the actual building of a cohesive essay or speech. Included at the end is an appendix containing a sample essay and a sample speech to illustrate classical oration design features. Lots of people have good ideas but find themselves at a loss when it comes to ordering those ideas in such a way that others can readily apprehend them. This book is for all those people: for speakers and writers-and ultimately for their audiences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael Larson teaches English at Minnesota State College - Southeast Technical, in Winona, Minnesota. He is the author of A Concise Guide to Documentation: MLA, APA, and Chicago, as well as a book of poems, What We Wish We Knew, and a chapbook of poems, The Light Remaining. Mr. Larson is also the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in poetry, a Loft-McKnight fellowship in poetry, and an Iowa State Arts Board grant in fiction.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Createspace Independent Publishing Platform","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50415656894738,"sku":"9781475087598","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_caa2b948-cd99-4dbf-b537-ed86310310f9.jpg?v=1729408445","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/durable-design-classical-oration-for-speeches-and-essays-9781475087598","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}