Sunday, April 26, 2009
Week 15, Discussion 1
Video 15.1 taught me about the elements of arguments. They are thesis, claims, evidence, and reasoning. A thesis is very important because it states the central idea of your speech. In order to support your thesis, you use claims, evidence, and reasoning. It is very important to link your evidence to your claims. I am going to use this in my speech by making sure I make the claim that genocide is a serious issue that should be taken control of and then give evidence as to why I am making this claim. In Schooling: pro I noticed that Dixie had very good eye contact and spoke at a constant rate. She sounds very confident about her topic as she walks around and looks towards the audience but I think that she could have talked a little louder. While watching Schooling: Con I noticed that Robert used a lot of gestures, which, to me, was really annoying. He sounds excited about the topic and spoke at a good rate with a good pitch. I think that Dixie connected to the audience better than Robert because she gave a lot of eye contact, seemed very confident, used hand gestures but not too many to be annoying, and walked around while she gave her speech. Although I have never had a problem with the rate or pitch of my voice during a speech, I am going to focus on that for my third speech.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
In a speech, it is a must to have a thesis and both speakers stated it clearly. I like that you said "It is very important to link your evidence to your claims". This is very true and will help the audience get a better understanding of what the speaker is trying to bring across. Both speakers spoke strongly on their topic, gave great eye contact, great projection of voice, and confidence. For all the students in our class, hopefully they notice how well the speeches were presented and can learn to do the same for our upcoming and last speech!
ReplyDeleteThe thesis is the most important part of the speech because it is what you are trying to prove throughout your speech. So all the claims, evidence, and reasoning should be relevant to your topic. I can't wait to hear your speech about genocide because it is an interesting topic that I would want to know more about! In the speech buddy videos, Dixie did give off great eye contact, but I felt as if she was didn't really believe in what she was fighting for some reason. I thought Robert did really well in his speech, but I didn't really notice his hand gestures. Good luck on the next speech!
ReplyDeleteHello Colie! I'm glad you found the videos helpful. How exactly are you going to apply the ideas you learned? You mentioned that you are going to link your evidence to your claim - can you give me a specific example of how you are going to do that in your coming speech? :)
ReplyDelete