Conclusion

I feel like I did an excellent job on my blog. I consistently answered each prompt fully and with great detail. I would want readers of my blog to recognize the amount effort I put into my work and appreciate my responses.

Favorite Presentation, Current feelings about Public Speaking

My favorite presentation was Crystal's. Her story about her stepbrother dying at war for his country and receiving no admiration from our armed forces is really tragic. However, the tribute video she showed was really heartwarming. Her presentation really touched my heart and made me realize how much I would miss my brother if he passed away.

After presenting my powerpoint successfully I am less apprehensive about public speaking. It is really not that difficult when you are presenting in front of equals, like my classmates, especially when everyone is in the same boat. I think that after this positive experience I will be less nervous the next time I have to speak to a group.

Apprehensions

Before my oral presentation I was admittedly nervous. I, along with many others, are scared of speaking in front of a large audience like my classmates. There are methods that can be used to eliminate this apprehension, however. Two ways that one can eliminate these apprehensions is by practicing speaking to a group and by using notecards that have what you plan to say written on them. By using notecards, the speaker does not have the additional worry of remembering what they want to say. They can simply read off the card. Practice helps eliminate the frightening feeling of standing in front of a crowd because you are conditioned in the act of speaking to people after repetition.

The library should be classified in ways that readers can better understand and relate too. The title of each section should help the reader to know whether they would enjoy books in that section or if they should move to a different one. If I ran a library I would have sections such as "Difficulty of Reading" and have books labeled as hard, medium, and easy. The hard section would have books with small print or that many readers find boring. Another method of classification would be "Level of Interest" with sections labeled very interesting, moderately interesting, and boring. This would help the reader to possibly recognize books they may enjoy reading. Very interesting books would include topics like progress in cancer research or gay and lesbian lifestyles, while boring books would have topics like the history of early presidencies.

Tipping Point

The Tipping Point as a novel is an extremely well written and focuses on topics that were well researched and accurate. Each tipping point was explained in great detail and followed a specific rule. Each tipping point was used as an example for a rule, and often a rule had several tipping point examples making it easy for the reader to understand the point.

However, at times the book was confusing as it would constantly reference hush puppies although they seemed to not fit in the setting the author would place them. If the author talked less about hush puppies and focused solely on the tipping points the book would have been easier to follow.

2 Goals for the Second Multi Draft

The two goals I have for my second multi-draft are to be more concise in my descriptions and reasoning, as well as to have less grammatical errors. I think with this multi-draft this will be possible because I will spend more time on revising my rough draft, and therefore have more time to recognize mistakes and unnecessary words and sentences. By spending more time on revisions and revising for several short periods I will be able to produce a better product.

Since I forgot to reference The Tipping Point in my last blog, I will now. Gladwell discusses a type of subtle bias using body language. The broadcast I chose showed a spoken, more obvious bias. These two types are dissimilar because body language showing bias is less obvious while a spoken bias is easily recognized.