Reflection In The Offense Section: Set Your Goals?

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Kenzie Goodburn
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AP Language & Composition
27 January 2014
Chapter Reflection
The very first chapter in the Offense section, Set Your Goals, provides a very realistic and applicable concept to reflect on. In an overview of the chapter, Heinrichs persuades the readers to not only set their personal goals, but also set goals for the audience, and the argument as a whole. He also defines the difference between an argument and a fight. A successful argument gets people to do what you want and is not just a confrontation to win. I found the concepts, goal setting and differentiating between arguing and fighting, very interesting. Personally, I have experiences with goal setting almost every day and I find this to be a strength of mine …show more content…

In this chapter, Heinrichs explains Cicero’s five canons of persuasion: invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery. These techniques should be used in any speech or presentation and are very applicable in varied parts of my life: social, academic, team environments. I believe that the most important are invention; the materials for the speech, and style; proper language, clearness, vividness, decorum. Personally, I consider style and delivery to be my strengths, but on the other hand, these two techniques can be so enhanced by effective invention and arrangement. The author creates an essential rule of thumb of “Ethos first. Then Logos. Then Pathos.” that was mentioned in the first chapter. I am going to strive to remember this ordering as an underlying outline in my speech and writing: Introduction, Narration, Division, Proof, Refutation, and Conclusion. The author also mentions the ideal voice has volume, stability and flexibility, which I interpret as a tone that can be used in my future writing. Overall, the chapter, Give a Persuasive Talk, provides realistic and understandable tools for successful

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