What concept or concepts from the class do you thing were the most helpful in preparing your speeches?

The organization patterns were very helpful to me since I have a hard time especially with something like public speaking where I don’t speak in front of large groups very often and I’m just unorganized. It taught me how to organize my speeches depending on the effect I would want it to have. It showed me that speeches are very different from regular conversation where you just talk back and forth, but in a speech you have to get from A to B. So, yeah the organizational patterns were probably the most helpful but I also think that practicing your speech was very important also. I have asthma so a lot of times I wouldn’t want to stress out my throat by saying my speech out loud but just by looking over the power point and outline and thinking about what you were going to say when you got to this point and stuff helped a lot with visual cues when I gave my speech in front of class and actually made me remember things that I forgot during the speech.

What am I going to take from this class?

I am going to be more grateful for my teachers and respect them more. I mean there is so much work that goes into preparing for a five minute speech when they have to organize what they’re going to talk about for three to five hours. I am going to be a lot more understanding when they say they’re not done grading yet since there is so much on their plates.  I also think that time management and knowing how being in front of my audience affects my speech. I learned that you have to be in a good mindset and you can’t have things in or out of class distract you from what you’re doing. You have to build a whole new character when you get in front of the audience and let the past go. I think that’s what I had most trouble with and I think the beginning of the speech is a lot more easier than the ending.

My Favorite Speech

All the speeches were pretty good and I’m not just saying that because they all taught me something that I never knew about. But there was one that stood out and just seemed to flow very well and had a very extemporaneous speaking style. So I choose Scotts presentation on the Electoral College. For the most part it didn’t even seem like he was giving a speech and he was very relaxed. He was acting like himself and he looked very comfortable with it. He also gave us really good ways to take action and I thought that made his speech seem very achievable and just help it all wrap up. I really wonder if he took a long time to practice the speech or if it just comes natural because all his speeches were pretty good. Another factor could be that he just had more time to grow knowledge about these subjects but I’m pretty sure it’s because he is just really good at speeches.

concept: Inductive Reasoning

Inductive reasoning is reasoning that we all use to go from the specific to the general. For example, If I listen to a song and say that it's good I use inductive reasoning to say that other songs from the same band must also be good. Inductive reasoning is best used with a lot of concrete examples and facts. Using the facts will help support your claim since you making a more logical thinking pattern since you don't actually know if other songs from the same band are actually good. So convincing your audience that they are will take some facts to support your claim so audience members can better view your concept and support it. This is why inductive reasoning is also called "reasoning by example," because your giving examples to support your reasoning so that audience members get a better grasp of what your talking about and are more likely to be convinced.

Reasoning used to persuade others

Since my speech is about myplate I think I’m going to use inductive reasoning. Inductive reasoning is about going from the very specific to the general and I think if I was going to do a speech about myplate I would have to talk about my specific problem  of my plate and how effects the country as a whole in general. BY appealing by logic and reasoning with inductive reasoning I am able to make the audience visualize what will happen if they do no implement what I say and do. Inductive reasoning is also called “reasoning by example,” which is why I think it’s effective to give an image to people’s minds about what will happen if they don’t follow through with my plan. According to the book, “researching is the best way is the best way to know about the true cause of events and by using the supporting evidence to back up your claim will make you present a stronger argument.” It seems that getting your facts in an order that makes since will help you deliver your speech and make it much stronger.

Speech Buddies Ch.15

The buddies really did a good job on their organization of the speech and I can tell the intro from the main points from the conclusion. I thought the guy who did the cons of homeschooling sounded a little choppy, like a computer was doing the speech, and asked to many questions in the beginning (though I can understand from him that questions is an effective way to get the audiences attention). The first girl I thought did her speech really well. The other thing I noticed is that the speech is always going to have holes and there's somethings that the girl covered like bullying and some things the guy covered like parenting and that you can't expect to explain everything during your speech. So I guess we'll all have to choose what we think is most effective for someone to be persuaded that what were saying is right. I think they both appealed towards logos or logical proof by using alot of examples and facts.

Ch 14 question of value

I chose to write about question of value because I think it could relate to my topic. Question of value is "a question that asks for a subjective evaluation of something's worth, significance, quality, or condition." Since my topic is how Myplate is not a very effective food guide I think it questions the quality of the design and its overall worth. I would be questioning why it's not an effective guide based off what it is missing. It will not be a problem solution but it's asking the audience if this is really what you want the government diet base to be this way. That is why I think it's a question of value because its subjective and ask the audience if they really think it's quality is all that great.

Topic Monroe’s Motivated Sequence VS Problem Solution Pattern

Well Monroe’s motivated sequence is to get your audience enthusiastic about your subject and get them to be enthusiastic about the solution, where Problem solution pattern is more like explaining a problem and showing them the solution and getting them to join your cause. They are both are very similar but Monroe’s sequence is more of a cause or idea to react to and problem solution is a real problem not just an idea that can be solved. Since my speech is about the cons of the governments myplate guide I think I’m going to go with Monroe’s motivated sequence since I don’t want to implement a solution to create a new government standard because I don’t think I can study up enough to know what a new myplate design would look like but to get the audience informed and to show that myplate is not a good template to base your meals off of and the what the real diet should look like. Just correct me if I’m wrong about the definitions of Monroe’s motivated sequence or problem solving but this is just what my interpretation was. 

Immersed in a sea of Persuasion

Being persuasive is not one of my strongest traits. Actually today I went to Denios (a farmers market) and I was going to buy some oranges.  So I went up to a stand and was looking at their price for oranges and the seller ask me if I wanted 10 pounds of oranges because it was cheaper and started bagging the oranges without my response. Some reason I couldn’t say “no, I I’m still oranges” because he had his best interest in helping me get the best price. So I thought that was very persuasive of him. He got what he wanted and I got what I wanted, but he did it in the way that didn’t make me feel bad and that’s what I think a persuasive speech should be. Other encounters of persuasion would be all those messed up T.V. adds for children. I know that when I was a child I was like “oh cool GAK!” now I just look at it like its just putty. So I guess to be a more critical consumer you have to use all your knowledge and logic to figure out what the seller is not saying about the product and what they told you about it. Then just piece it together and figure out if it’s worth buying or not. As for becoming a more persuasive messenger, I just try not to stumble on my words and be confident and have the best interest of the audience in mind.