Quintilian: the good man skilled in speaking
Eloquence cannot be separated from character: character is grown over years, a speech is prepared in an evening.
A dishonest speaker gets worse over time. He has to conceal, to blur and to remember his earlier lies — and the same people hear you every year, and they notice.
- Characterwhether what you promised first-years in September happened in November
- Long practicereading and writing, exercises like the real thing, no shaming
- Judgementthe judgement of when it is worth speaking at all
- The speech itselfthe only layer the audience sees, and it rests on the three below
- The situation
In September the club promised first-years a mentoring programme, in November there was none, and in December it has to invite them to a new event.
- What the model says
Slides will not help here. The bottom layer broke — a promise the club did not keep, and that nobody has forgotten by December.
- What you do
Before the December invitation write one sentence on what was not done in September and when it will be — the cheapest strategy for being believed is to actually do what you said.
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This text is freely available, so the links go straight to it rather than to a summary of it.
- Wikisource — the Institutio Oratoria in English
- LacusCurtius — Book XII, where the good man skilled in speaking actually appears
- Internet Archive — a scan of Butler's Loeb translation
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