Micro-Activity # 7: Pick a Model & Organize Your Ideas

Both Douglass’s speech and Wollstonecraft’s letter helped me decide which style I want to use for my writing. Throughout the pieces their strategies were organized and understandable. I was able to know who the audience was and the goal for their discourse community. In my opinion this will guide me to making my argument because I learned new strategies as to how I could present my argument, grab my audience’s attention, convince them why my discourse community issue matters and how it could be solved. The speech is a better model for me because I can be clear with my message and you can hear the tone I’m using. The purpose of a speech is to inform, persuade, inspire, amuse, please, or to entertain the audience as Douglass did. A few key elements of writing a speech is having statistics/facts to persuade the audience, structure, a message, evidence to support my argument, using transitions, keep it short and starting off with something that will grab their attention. Throughout the speech I will be addressing other people’s points and be repetitive. In my speech I will talk about my issues and let my audience know what’s going on. I will support my issue with personal information and other facts. I will try to persuade them to focus on my issue and solve the problems. I will give a few solutions hoping there will be change and end strong. The purpose of my speech is to get the response I want at the end.