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Assignment 2: Providing Context for your Speech Analysis 1)…
Assignment 2: Providing Context for your Speech Analysis
1) Submit 2 Additional Sources for your Speech Analysis
2) one page of Context for your Paper.
Context is the necessary background information that you readers need to understand the speech.
Considering Context in Your Working.
What is context?
Have you ever read an article or a book that should be easy to understand, but you could not understand much of it because it was written at a Ph.D. level even though it was intended for high school students? This was probably because the author did not consider context when writing the piece. Context, or setting, is the first thing to consider when writing because it will shape everything you do afterward.
What is your task?
there are three major ”w” questions you want to consider: ”what?” ”why?” and ”who?” We’ll go through each of these one by one. First, you want to ask yourself, ”what am I writing about?” Sometimes this is easy, such as if your instructor gave you an essay prompt, but sometimes it is much more difficult, particularly if you are picking the topic yourself. Whatever your topic is, you want to make sure that you understand how specific you should be and stick to it throughout.
For example, you might talk about Walter Short, the commander in charge of the U.S. military during the attack because you could adequately cover it in that many pages. Understanding exactly what your task is and what is the best way to start a strong paper, and it is important to read any directions you are given for the assignment carefully.
Why is this important?
The second thing you will want to think about when writing a paper is why is this important or significant? This will often grab your reader’s attention and will help you understand even more about your topic. This is sometimes difficult to determine, but it might be helpful, such as in our previous example, to think about what it was about Walter Short that made him a good commander. Understanding what you are trying to accomplish with your paper will help you stay consistent and reflect your thesis throughout.
Another component of this significance is understanding the purpose of your assignment. This might be simply explaining the importance of something, but sometimes it is a specific requirement of an assignment. For example, is your paper supposed to be objective, meaning you present the facts without bias, or is it supposed to be argumentative? If you were work an objective paper, you might just present facts about Walter Short and explain why he was important to the Pearl Harbor defense. If you were working an argumentative paper, you might write about why Walter Short was a better commander than another person or even why he was not effective. Paper and purpose is incredibly important to determine before you start.
Who is your audience?
Your audience, to or for whom the paper is being start , is important in guiding the language and organization of your paper. If you are working for a high school or college class, you will probably need to start in a more academic and formal way–but sometimes your assignment might call for you to write for a younger audience or for your peers. While writing to an older audience about Walter Short you might use more detailed terms like ”lieutenant general,” if you were working for a third grade class, you would probably want to use simpler words like ”leader” instead.
You also should consider how much prior knowledge your audience has about the topic, which will change how you organize your paper. While a high school or college audience would probably know about World War II and Pearl Harbor, meaning you would not have to add extra information about those, a third grade audience might not and you would have to explain to them what those events were before even talking about your subject.
Original speech Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up9-C4_8dVo.
Two Additional sources:https://www.forbes.com/profile/jack-ma/
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jack-Ma
