Informative Report

Steve Jobs, a businessman in Silicon Valley, gave the Stanford Commencement Address in 2005. Rhetorical tools are used to persuade the audience. Ethos deals with the speaker's credibility, Pathos appeals to emotion and Logos appeals to logic. Steve Jobs’ successfully used the rhetorical tools Ethos, Pathos, and Logos throughout his speech.

The presentation was broken into six slides with each member presenting two of the slides. The slide that was done by Joyce Kruger was the basic intro where we got the audience thinking about our topic. We would first ask the audience “Do you know what we are presenting on today” and most of them would raise their hands because we had already told them what we're talking about and we wanted them to raise their hands. Once their hands were up we would then pick someone with their hand up and ask them what a black hole is in their opinion. We wanted to get a couple kids to say their opinion just to get a baseline on what they already know. Then we would introduce the definition of a black hole and compare it to what the kids said. We would wrap up this slide by talking about how black holes were made. This was a good segway into Paul’s section on the

Briefly summarize the content of the lecture and the highlights of the Q&A session (if any)

In his persuasive piece "The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint" Edward Tufte, although skillfully delivering his anti-PowerPoint point of view to an audience of presenters, is unable to provide a fully convincing argument against the famous presentation program.

Give the title of the presentation, name of the presenter, and when and where you attended the presentation (2 points).

The speech that I will be discussing was given by Dr. Robert Kleinhenz who is the Chief Economist at the LA Economic Development Corporation. He was discussing the the recent and future trends at the port of Long Beach and Los Angeles. He used a PowerPoint which had multiple graphs and important information that related to the topic of his speech. Throughout the speech he would use hand gestures, and had a good voice. While comparing his speech to other speeches I saw that his was different from others but all had some things in common they were epideictic, had multiple numbers and statistics. His included all this and had other components such as the power point.

Mead & Hampson (1996) developed a study involving the divided visual field paradigm and a phonological rhyme/non-rhyme task to test the speed and accurateness of either side of the brain. This study was used to investigate functional asymmetry between the left and right hemispheres in phonological processing. The research was taken out equally on 15 male and 15 females London Metropolitan University students ranging from ages 18 – 35 years old. They were all specifically chosen to be right–handed and had English as their first language thus providing a fair experiment to see whether our left hemisphere (left side of the brain) or the right hemisphere is faster and more accurate. In conclusion using the mean and standard

David started telling stories which are relevant to his presentation. It is important that David makes the audience get involved, by asking a rhetorical questioned to the staff, but no answer is expected (Laws 2000, p. 104). Furthermore, the audience is more likely to engage and to remember points afterward. David focused on compiling adequate information about computer networks. The gathered information should then be organized appropriately in simple formats that can be easily understood. Keeping his presentation simple makes the audience follow quickly. David prepared audiovisual presentations that demonstrate the data in simple charts. David started to be in full control of his audience. Instead, it is wise for the presenter to communicate through the topic for clarity and moreover, the audience understands more about the topic. David has maintained a proper eye contact with the audience. David has varied his volume, pitch (high or low) and pace to make his presentation more stimulating and avoid sounding monotonous and had to alter his tone. However, he also pauses for emphasis and effect (Laws 2000, p. 30). By smiling, it helps David to develop a positive relationship with his audience, and feel more comfortable and at ease during the presentation. Once, David gets

The Mandatory Reporting Training available from the Arizona Child Abuse Info Center is a free on-line training open to anyone but targeted toward Mandatory Reporters. Mandatory Reporters are designated by Arizona State Law, ARS 13-3620. They include five categories of reporters: professional reporters, peace officers/ clergy members, parent/stepparent/guardian, school personnel/ victim advocates, and “any other person who has the responsibility for the care or treatment of the minor” (Arizona State Legislature, n.d.). As Social Workers, we are responsible under this law to report if, in the course of our professional practice, we develop any reasonable suspicion of abuse toward a minor.

My informative research paper topic has had its up and downs but overall I have finally decided what my topic will be for the rest of the semester. I started off with a very broad topic, endangered species. I narrowed my topic from species to Giant Pandas to a region called Sichuan China. I noticed there was not plenty of information that was given only on Sichuan so I went back and left it as Giant pandas in China's Regions. There are plenty of regions that have reserves to breed the specie and keep the survival rates up. Bifengxia, Dujiangyan, Gengda Wolong, Hetaoping Wolong, and other china reserves are some of the conservations that helps the specie. I plant to concentrate on the breeding, habitation, and survival of the specie. I am still

The speaker I went to was Jaclyn Friedman, she has a Master’s degree in creative writing from Emerson College. The main topics she covered in her presentation were sexual safety, consent, sexual violence, and feminism. Her presentation was based on her books Yes Means Yes and What You Really Really Want. The speech was to inform the audience, college students, of safe sexual behaviors to practice.

I have shown huge improvements on delivering speeches. This process helped me to understand different kinds of speech and their expectations. The only way I can think of improving is that to get myself be confortable and to do more preparations. Therefore, the mistakes I made in this will help me to improve on the next

(Gorman, 1998). I feel as a group with different knowledge of the topic we worked well together after we overcame the issue of picking a topic. It felt a little awkward at first in the storming stages, but as every meeting passed it got better and we learned to work as a team. Everyone had a role and we all understood each other’s roles and what we needed to do to produce the final presentation. When the person before me was going though their part I was thinking I can’t do this and was starting to shake. I thought we did well to present out topic to our peers and we received good feedback from the lecturer. I was very pleased that I did a good job presenting even though I was nervous.

There are several advantages that computer-assisted coding offers with its strategy over manual coding, including increased productivity and accuracy, enhanced efficiency, and advance compliance in coding and the consistent use of coding rules. By no means does computer-assisted coding replace the human coder.

I am Alexander Ingram, student of Ozark Technical Community College. This is my third year as a student at this school. I am studying in the design and drafting program with possibly only two semesters for my degree after this one. One of the more important courses I am taking during my scholar at this school besides the Drafting classes is Public Speaking. I recently gave a self introduction speech at the head of the Public Speaking classroom. This course will not only help me see several places where I could improve but, also I will learn methods to improve and ways to better inform, deliver, and persuade as on personable speech and general speaking in public.