3/28/18

In class today, we went right back to working on our research paper that is due April 11th, the Wednesday we come back from Spring break. Mr. Rivers stressed the importance of the audience in our speeches because the more specific our audience is, the more effective it would be in using rhetorical choices and writing techniques geared to those specific people. If our audience was too broad, then our speech would lack the capability in drawing our audience to our claim and having them agree with it.
Mr. Rivers provided questions below to ask about our own audience so that we'll know if our audience is sufficient enough. Our speech should be supported by evidence while using strategies and tactics that are best for the specific audience.

Audience: Who are these people? What do they believe? What are the circumstances (i.e. OCCASION) for your speech?

Argument: What are you claiming? What evidence helps to support those claims? What strategies/tactics will work on this audience?

Having a specific audience is important because we can focus our strategies and tactics for those set of people. Everyone is swayed differently, so having a specific audience makes it easier because your not trying to have everyone agree with your claim. This is an important skill to learn and use in everyday writing because we can't argue anything if we are trying to persuade everyone to agree. It's best to argue something by using tactics for certain people so that way it strengthens your overall argument.