Increase Your Wordpower – English Rhetoric and Presentation

This five-hour intensive workshop aims at developing the participants’ communicative-rhetorical competence in English (and, by transfer, also in other languages). We will focus on seven rhetorical devices, passed down to us by the classical rhetoricians, and we will use presentations as a testing ground to practice these rhetorical devices in a predictable, monologic communicative situation.

The workshop is interspersed with analyses of video clips of authentic speeches, showing us how powerful speakers use our seven rhetorical devices to great effect, and with practical exercises, encouraging the participants to incorporate their newly gained knowledge in their own language use.

By the end of the workshop, the participants will have received ample input on how to use the language more vividly, forcefully, and, above all, persuasively. In this sense, the paradigm that underlies this workshop is that, while it is certainly important to be able to communicate the “what” (i.e., at the information level) and the “why” (i.e., at the argumentation level), the “how” (i.e., the language level) is equally – sometimes even more – crucial.


Target Group:
Doctoral Candidates & Postdocs


Course information

Course level
B2/ C1
Date
  • Thursday 10.10.2019, 08:30–13:30
6 Lessons
Lecturer
Paul Skandera, Dr.
Registration via Transferable skills

Course materials

Script

Important

Registration for this course is only possible as of 7 August 2019, 9:00 am via Transferable Skills.

Certificate of attendance

In order to receive a certificate of attendance (available on request) for this course, you are not allowed to be absent at all.

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