Speech-Related Activity: 1-minute Speeches Aims: Practice quick analytical thinking‚ expression of opinions Level: This works best with more advanced students‚ and in smaller groups. Materials: Pre-made topic slips‚ a clock or watch for keeping time. Roles: Each speech requires a speaker and a timekeeper. Procedure: The student to perform the speech randomly selects a faced-down strip of paper containing a topic. The student has a short period of time (3 – 5 seconds)
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Steve Jobs General purpose: to inform Organizational outline method or pattern: topical INTRODUCTION Attention getter: On June 12‚ 2005‚ Steve Jobs told the graduates of Stanford University to “Stay hungry‚ Stay foolish” Specific purpose: The purpose of my speech is to inform all of you about a man that you may or may not already know‚ the founder of Apple Computers‚ Steve Jobs. Listener relevance link: Most people may find this interesting because most
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Critical Discourse Analysis of Obama’s Political Discourse Juraj Horváth Abstract This paper examines the persuasive strategies of President Obama’s public speaking as well as the covert ideology of the same‚ enshrined in his inaugural address. Our analysis is grounded in Norman Fairclough’s assumptions in critical discourse analysis‚ claiming that "ideologies reside in texts" that "it is not possible to ’read off’ ideologies from texts" and that "texts are open to diverse interpretations"
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Speech Topic: The Importance of Sleep Rhetorical Purpose: To inform my audience about how a bad sleep can influence our body physically and mentally‚ and steps to improve the quality of sleep. Audience Analysis: (Refer to chapter on Audience Analysis)(RU Core Goal: a) Summarize Audience demographics‚ prior exposure/knowledge‚ common ground/interest‚ disposition/attitude‚ and situational characteristics. Recognizing that most of my audiences are busy with study and after-class activities‚
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Langston Hughes wrote “I Too” as a direct response to Whitman’s “I Hear America Singing.” In effect‚ the differences in tone inform the overall messages of the poems. By examining the two poems‚ one can see how the tones exemplify what it means to be an American. Hughes’s poem depicts a sense of isolation while Whitman’s poem gives off the sense of inclusiveness. Hughes’s poem presents a situation where the near future will allow for greater inclusion. For example he says‚ “Nobody’ll dare say to
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David Hopper COMMS 2110 Austenfeld 04/02/16 Informative Speech Formal Outline Thesis: There are physical and social effects of alcohol that are not only detrimental to your own physiological and psychological well being‚ but also to those you interact with. I. Alcohol is a general term denoting a family of organic chemicals with common properties. Members of this family include ethanol‚ methanol‚ isopropanol‚ and others. This introduction discusses the physical‚ chemical‚ and physiological
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Informative Speech Evaluation The speaker‚ Regina Glover‚ gave an informative Speech about the history‚ significance‚ and aesthetics of AfriCobra. The content of her speech was well developed‚ in how she choose to organize it. It was clever for her to give a brief history first so that the audience could have a glimpse of how AfriCobra began. To present the significance of AfriCobra second was also smart‚ because the audience would have wanted to know the overall purpose of the art‚ which made Regina’s
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The Informative and Surprising Essay: Low-Fare Airlines Are Bad Business for Air Travelers Javier Lopez Embry Riddle Aeronautical University Author Note English 123‚ English Composition Submitted to Professor Linda Silva November 16th‚ 2014 The Informative and Surprising Essay: Low-Fare Airlines Are Bad Business for Air Travelers At the newsstand‚ an aviation magazine headline read “Airbus A380 the Future of Aviation.” Although‚ from a forgotten source‚ it was a bold statement to which
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Part 1: Strongest Work The strongest piece of writing that I have done this quarter is my “Informative Essay” on truth about organic foods. There are many areas in this essay which makes me feel that this essay deems to be my best essay so far. Firstly‚ the outline and organization of my essay was apt for an Informative Essay‚ I had devoted the first paragraph for Introduction which had the summary of the information I wanted to present. The last paragraph had the Conclusion which wrapped up all
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I thought that my Informative Speech went very well. There were a few things that I think I can improve on‚ but other than those little hiccups I think that I executed it very well. To prepare for the speech‚ I practiced three times. One time in front of my mother‚ one time in front of my whole family‚ then on time by myself. These practices really helped me feel more confident about what I was going to say and help me figure out what I needed to add and or put in to make the speech better.
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