I Believe...
In my This I believe
project I start off my paper and audio by stating my this I believe statement
which is I believe that everyone is entitled to a belief. I continue my paper
by forming my stance. I do this by telling a personal story of why I feel the
way that I do and this leads into why I stand where I do the subject that
everyone is entitled to a belief. The way I start the paper is to do so, so
that the audience gets a clear understanding of my belief and where I stand on
it. I structure my paper so that I state why I feel the way that I do while
adding to each reason by given a personal example from my life and each tie
into one another. I get my audience to care by giving personal examples that
everyone can relate to. To begin my personal story of why I believe that
everyone should be entitled to their beliefs I use something that happened to
me while I was in middle school. Everyone can relate back to a time in their
school years where they were belittled or bullied and I use this to start out my
paper and get the audience to care and want to read more.
When relating my story
to my personal life I use facts that and things that actually happened in my
life to show readers that this is something that I take serious and something
that is important to me. I back the life stories up with factual information
and things that people can honestly say that they experienced themselves. So
not only do the readers relate to what I am saying they don’t have to go far
looking for evidence of what I’m saying because it’s what most if not all
students experience and that is there values and beliefs being tested or
questioned.
I organized my work in
a way that the reader can read it thoroughly without having any trouble with
grammar or trying to figure out what I’m talking about, and in a way that they
can go back and relate each point to one another to get a clear view of my
stance. The paper starts out with my belief statement separated from the rest
of the work so that before you even start to read into the bulk of the paper
you understand where I am coming from. Then as the reader reads on they are
given a personal story from when I was younger that relates back to the belief
statement. In reading the first paragraph of the paper the reader gains
understanding of where my belief started and why I might feel so strongly about
it. My paper then jumps ahead to my college years. It shows how I as a person
have developed and how this has impacted my stance on what I believe and how I
handle those who may have different beliefs or challenge what I believe. The
paper ends by tying everything back together relating each point to one another
to help the reader further understand.
For my verbal
presentation I had to go back and cut some mistakes out when reading what I
wrote. Generally I talk pretty face and somewhat have a very deep low tone type
voice. Knowing this I had to speak clearly and louder than I usually do so that
when listening it would be able to comprehend clearly. Also when recording I
had to make sure that there was no background noise or anything that would
throw me off from reading or mess up my recoding. Finding a quiet place with no
outside noise was probably the most challenging aspect of recording along with
reading and making sure that the audience could understand. I took me about 2
or 3 tries to get it to sound how I wanted it to and even then it still needed
a lot of editing. When reading through the first time I purposely went back in
and put commas so that when I was reading I could que myself to slow down and
take breaths and not rush through it or mumble.
