Blog 6

Boethius brought up several key points involving rhetoric of oration. He talked about how important invention, arrangement, style, memory and delivery are. He focuses a lot on the art of oration and how effective it can be. His values and opinions remain important today, however they've changed drastically as we are no longer an oral cultured society. We are much more concerned with writing, and print and being able to see or read something rather than hearing things. His rules still apply to everything written. we use each of those aspects when we compose a paper, a blog or advertisement. Rhetoric has not changed all that much since its inception. We still use the foundations in which it was founded on to create a successful argument. The only difference is that we usually have something in two mediums. For instance, a speech is still spoken, however it is usually written down first. And advertisements can be heard on a radio, or viewed in a magazine - they may not have the exact same content, but they convey the same point. We must adjust the use of Boethius' points in our arguments depending on which method we choose to communicate with.