Comparing Angela Lee Duckworth and Rodrigo Roa Duterte as Speakers

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A successful speech requires an excellent projection of ethos, which reflects the speaker’s capacity to appeal to the audience’s emotion, enhancing his credibility and reliability. It can be demonstrated through the speaker’s intonation, confidence in presenting information, the formality of the speech, and the appropriateness of the clothing. In this paper, we shall compare two speakers, namely Angela Lee Duckworth and Rodrigo Roa Duterte, the Philippine President.
Between the two, the former illustrated excellence in projecting ethos in her TED Talk, while the latter did not show brilliance in terms of ethos on his behalf. Duckworth’s talk was directed to educators to help them adjust their insights to the needs of the students. She projected her ethos by wearing a semi-formal dress, matching that of the audience and the setting. Her tone was friendly yet informative and assertive. To prove her credibility, she started by stating her profession as a public-school teacher and revealed the result of her year-long research, which showed that grit, instead of intelligence quotient, is the most significant factor determining the lessons (Duckworth, 2013). She was excellent in proving her credibility as she combined her observation from personal...