Poverty On Single Mothers Rhetorical Analysis

Reaction Paper On April 13, 2017 as I was going into the Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Student Research Conference located at the Spring Creek Campus I was not sure of what to expect. The room I walked into had 3 speakers, with a t.v, and table up front. The room was almost full of students, there were maybe 5 seats left unoccupied. The speech I chose to react to was Emily Belle Winns “Poverty On Single Mothers”. She wasn't given any introduction by anyone, she introduced herself and her topic. All the speakers took turns standing up and introducing themselves when it was their time. I feel like if someone had introduced them, it might have seemed more professional. Right off the bat I could tell that she was unprepared because it took her a while to get her powerpoint, and notes ready. While she was getting situated, she tried to fill in the silence with jokes. She did this throughout the entirety of her speech. Her transitions from one topic to the other would be filled with a joke, or by making irrelevant comments. She would also interact with the audience during most of the time. Most of the audience
I do not think that she was successful in getting her point across to everyone, mainly because her speech was all over the place. Even though her powerpoint had slides, and a few graphs here and there she did not really dive into her topic. Some of her examples included her friend, who she said is currently in this situation, she also interviewed 20 people at Collin College. In her interview she asked if they had both or just one parent. 75% had both while the remaining percentage had 1, she also asked how many of them knew someone who was homeless, and 50% of them claimed they did. She would jump around in her speech and to me it did not seem like she was clearly stating her