Persuasion

The most recent situation where I can remember myself persuading someone was actually a few days ago. It was pretty late at night and a few of my friends wanted to go get a snack. As a snack I thought they meant something of a small portion. A few of my friends suggest Dennys! Don't get me wrong, Dennys is an alright place to go for a late night snack, but I wasn't feeling Dennys that night. So I suggested to go get some yogurt at Yogurt Delight. Most of them said that they wanted to go to Dennys, because some people wanted real food. Some people agreed with me, because yogurt is good, and plus it's cheap! So my friends and I actually sat there and began to list the good things from eating at the yogurt place. I remember there being a sign at little shop telling us how yogurt is actually good for your digestive system. So I started to list that and I told him that it's good and healthy for you! Dennys is just greasy and fattening. Plus, we're not going to go work out after this, we're going to go home and sleep! By then, a few had changed their minds. Eventually, we all headed to go eat yogurt. It was pretty late, so Yogurt Delight was closed, but there was another shop called whimsical. They are opened until midnight. So for my reasonings, I used causal reasoning and inductive reasoning. So I would say that my persuasive skill works pretty well.

Video 15.1 and Schooling Pros & Cons

The video of 15.1 was useful because it broke down the elements of an argument. Of course we already know what a thesis is by now, I hope! On the other hand, I found that the simple explanation of each element and the showing of each sample is helpful. I was a bit stuck with how to make my speech a little more interesting, but from this video it did help me to develop it.
With the school pros & cons, the videos set a really good examples of transitions. I really liked how both speakers were speaking very clearly. I also intrigued by the their enthusiastic voices. The speakers connected with the audience very well, because the topic was very common. Schooling is and was something that everyone has gone through once before in their life. Presenting an option of home school to prevent those dangers that Dixie presented is quite adequate. On the other hand, Robert also did a well job with presenting the cons of home schooling. Overall, I would want the experience at a real school, because I see that there are more benefits to it on top of what Robert had explained.

Interesting Concept in Chp 14

What I found interesting in chapter 14 is the way the whole chapter greatly explains how to construct a good persuasive essay. The patterns are well explained in the chapters. It's not too hard to comprehend, because the explanations are straightforward. Also from each pattern, the book also included a sample outline. I thought that this was very useful. This helped me a lot to figure out what pattern my outline should follow. Also from some of the guides in the book such as question of policy and the different audiences are very useful. It help to guide me on what I should include in my outline. In a way it helped me to organize my ideas and main points, because it helped me to narrowed down the topic.
So hopefully with that in mind, the main points and sub point ideas I present will relate to the audience and persuade them thoroughly.

Sea of Persuasion

Every day I am in a sea of persuasion. Everywhere that I look there are always TV commercials telling me to buy something. Or when I'm walking out of SJSU, heading down the street to catch the light rail, there are tons of stores and signs that either persuades me to buy some shoes or to switch to Geiko! There are so much persuasion going on, but you just need to be asked the question for you to realize the persuasions around you. Even when I am having conversations with my friends, they are trying to get me to do buy something or to go somewhere or even to do something. I view that the media has an impact on persuading people. But usually it seems to come naturally. For example, the weatherman! They can simply give you a temperature and tell you that it's going to rain. People will automatically know to carry their umbrellas the next day. As for public speaking, I can think of school events that try to get us to either join a club, or to not smoke and what not. I was in a program which went around persuading people too. We did skits of real life scenarios to teach Junior High students how to say no to drugs and pure pressure.
As your own being and caring for what's good for you is how you can more of a critical consumer. Obviously, there will always be something that you don't favor so you would go against it.

Actuative Speech

As for my speech I am going to be persuade my audience to learn and to keep their native language. For my first main point I am planning to explain the problem with young adults, and them not understanding their language fluently enough. In my second main point I am going to explain about the benefits of keeping your native language, and what it can provide in your life along the way. Finally in my third main point, I'm going to suggest 3 reasonable actions my audience can take to learn more of their native language.
For my introduction, I'm going to start off with a question as a grabber. Afterward I am going to give a few facts and statistics on how many people in the Unites States speak English. These fact will be through a credibility. For my conclusion I am going to try to persuade my audience to consider one of the suggestions that I offered. Then I will review my main speeches again and close it up with strong ending. For the ending I hope to get my audience to at least think about how much they know their language, and hopefully try to learn more.
To persuade my audience, I'm going to give a few narratives that tie in with my topic. Because I know almost all of my audience can relate to this topic, I'm going to emphasis my 3 suggestions very clearly and strongly.

Interesting Concept

One concept that I found interesting in these readings was in chapter 13. I found it convenient, because it broke down the different patterns to organized the informative speeches. I used this chapter to help me a lot with the prior speech, so I was really familiar with this chapter and its content. Not only did they provide specific examples for each one, but the chapter also gave tips on how to make it more interesting depending on which style pattern you use. This chapter basically broke down the steps to forming a well organized informative essay. It obviously helped me a lot, because I did well on both my outline and my speech.

Sexist language

The discussion of Fickr captured my interesting very much. I didn't think anyone would feel indifferent about the use of the word "girl" to describe a women. I don't feel degraded or offended with people labeling me or any other female a girl. It's nice to be called a woman or lady, but being labeled as a "girl" in tags are just about the same. I don't view the word "girl" as to be a sexist term. There are a lot of words that label things and people (gender) that are closely related to "girl". Such examples were given by Rippie: Contra Censura:

"i suppose one solution is to ban words like girl, boy, black, white, red, yellow, etc...
asian should go, and indian is probably a hot-button, too."

I've never came across this kind if topic before. I can imagine labeling some religion or nationality something other than the original can be demeaning, but something as simple as boy, girl, yellow, red is natural. In the text book, it claimed that certain words and sentences can be viewed differently to the opposite sex. I see it all the same. I don't mind the gender use at all.