Friday, April 19, 2013

"No One Wins"

What challenges does Mi face in writing an essay to an audience she knows will be opposed to her view?

Think about your own essays--who is your audience, and how will your audience affect the way you argue your thesis?

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  1. Mi has to be especially careful with what she says and how she says it because there is a greater likelihood that someone could get offended and not want to listen to her at all. If she wants those opposed to her viewpoint to listen to her and take into account what she has to say, and even possibly persuade them to believe her, then she needs to make sure to be respectful and understanding about the other side, maybe acknowledge some things about the other side that are good or correct and help to make them feel like the way they think right now isn’t flat out wrong but just not exactly right. Those are things that I will also need to do in my essay.
    -Ashleigh Saunders

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  2. In all likelihood, she realize whatever she said not going to completely convince her target audience otherwise. People opinion don't get swayed easily and anything she say may inevitably offend someone.

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  3. She feels the need to convince them with her point. She knows it is not going to be easy. She is trying her best to make an influence. She also realizes that by doing so she might loose her audience forever and make things extremely worse. It is all about that fine line of tension that you son't want to break or let go of.

    My audience will be old professors and scientists, and employees of the space industry opposing to shut down NASA and letting the private sector take over space exploration

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