Blog Post 14

In this week, others’ speeches left a deep impression for me, especially the examples and evidences they found to support their own ideas. Personal experiences, statistical data, academic and scientific resources are selected to support ideas or prove some ideas were unreasonable. Moreover, followed those examples and resources, a brief analysis made their ideas stronger and more convincible, like Lucy’s analysis of why plastic surgery is not good for girls. For example, in Alec’s speech, he mentioned academic research results to present the view of worrying about violent games bring negative effects on youths lacked enough support from actual evidence and statistical data. It was very useful to correct the common view in our brain. And the beginning of speeches also gave me inspirations. Some speeches were began from an interesting question. Those questions expressed the controversial topics that speakers wanted to talk in next and attracted listeners attentions at the same time. Some other speakers used a small stories to begin their speeches. Those stories were interesting and significant to make listeners to think. Both questions and small stories successfully connected listeners and speakers. They created a kind of communications between them and led listeners to follow the speakers’ ideas.