Speech

I have completed my speech; yeah! Ironically as I read The Concept of Audience I found a lot of point which apply to my speech. It was interesting that the author so frequently compared the difficulties of writing to giving a speech to a live audience. I frequently feel that my writing is to directly addressed to a particular person. When I write, I write like I speak, so I envision a particular audience in my head as I write. I anticipate their reactions and develop counter arguments to them. However, the main flaw in my process, is that by having a particular audience in mind I only address their point of view and fail to think of others.
"You already know how to argue..... Life has taught you the elementary course." I found this introduction to be particularly interesting because my enter portfolio revolves around avoiding argument and finding alternative forms of discourse in which to convey one's point. It is interesting to try to write a persuasive paper about avoiding arguments without writing an argumentative essay. It would be pointless to write and argument about why arguing is wrong, therefore I believe one of the most difficult tasks I had writing my papers was tone. if the tone was argumentative, the entire essay would appear hypocritical.