Writing 2101F/G Lecture 7: Week 7
28 Feb 2017
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Use the reporter"s questions to determine direction of your content. Asking who, what, where, when, why and how as relevant questions to your topic helps you. Important in recognizing different requirements of informing versus persuading. Informing goal: provide information or educate, not aiming to sway the audience to believe something or to act. Success in maintaining neutrality hinge on the topic you choose: want to choose something you are interested and knowledgeable about, need to decide if you can maintain objectivity. Avoid highly volatile topics on which you have strong opinions. May see it as a personal challenge to relate opinions on both sides of a controversy without taking a side: enlightening experience of perspective taking. Reflect the content you will be explaining. Be wary of hidden persuasive tone: discussing benefits presents a (cid:498)pro(cid:499) stance. How to present the information: give illustrative examples as needed. Must be clear &present sufficient &relevant information.
