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MY POSITION SHIFTJacob Young
Content Overview• My Shift:
• The Before• The Shift• The After
• The Rhetorical Situation• Topic, Purpose, and Audience• Medium and Context
• Rhetorical Strategy• Description• Narrative• Compare and Contrast• Rhetorical Strategy
• How I Would Tweak It• Who’s the Audience?
• Summary
“If you’re going through hell, keep going”
(Winston Churchill)
THE SHIFTThe Before, The Shift, The After
The Before• Friends
• Hanging out with the wrong crowd• Lost touch with a lot of people
• School• Grades were slipping• Wasn’t trying
• Lifestyle• Lived a relatively unhealthy lifestyle• Overweight
• Outlook on Life• Why bother?
The Shift• The Realization
• I don’t have to live like this• My friends and family deserve better• I need to focus on school
• What I decided to do• Lose weight• Became more outgoing• Focus on school• Get my act together
The After• Lifestyle
• Lost 50-60 pounds• Living a healthier lifestyle
• School• Finished junior year with a 3.8 GPA• Finished senior year with a 4.2 GPA
• Friends• Became better friends with people from grade school• Met new people• God accepted into UK’s College of Engineering
• Life is good
RHETORICAL SITUATIONTopic, Purpose, Audience, Medium, and Context
Topic, Audience, Purpose• Topic
• Why did I go with this topic?
• Audience• Other college students• College professor
• Purpose• To get people to think about if they’re happy or not• Not happy? Make a change• Encourage others• Provide an example to show other’s its possible to change
Medium and Context• Medium
• Podcast Transcript• Translating it from transcript to blog• Could not see the response of the audience
• Context• Time limits• Podcast• Put it out there for everybody to listen to• Had to balance telling a story and persuading my point
RHETORICAL STRATEGYDescription, Narrative, Compare and Contrast, Tone and Diction
Description• What I did
• Went in depth of who I was• Talked about what I went through• Described my feelings• Described some of my thought process
• Why?• Room full of strangers• Felt if people got a better idea of who I was, it would be more
meaningful• To relate to others
Narrative/Compare and Contrast• Narrative
• The whole thing was a story• Stories within the main story• High school, surgery, change, etc.
• Why did I decide to tell it like this?• More personal• Less formal
• Compare and Contrast• The whole podcast
• Before vs. After – large scale• Unhappy vs. Happy
• Before vs. After – small scale• Individual stories and comparison
• Why did I choose to do it this way?• Clear points• You can see shift easily• Easier to stay on topic
Tone and Diction• Tone
• My tone was very easy going• More like I was talking to you, than giving a speech
• Diction• Diction was a balance of formal and informal• Word choice wasn’t super serious
• Why?• More relatable• Less like I was lecturing
HOW WOULD I TWEAK IT?The Audience
How Would I Tweak It?• The main way I would tweak this is based on who the
audience is
• Family/Friends:• Focus less on who I am• Not worry about giving such a back story• Focus more on why relationships were strained with them
• High School students:• Focus more on how I felt through high school• Focus more on why it was important that I changed• Focus more on improving grades for college
SUMMARYMain Points
Main Points• Purpose
• Encourage others to change their lives if they were unhappy
• Rhetorical Situation• Context• Medium• Audience
• I used many rhetorical strategies• Narrative• Description• Tone/Diction
Works Cited• "If You're Going Through Hell, Keep Going" Winston
Churchill." Forbes. 09 May 2012: n. page. Web. 9 Oct. 2012. <http://www.forbes.com/sites/geoffloftus/2012/05/09/if-youre-going-through-hell-keep-going-winston-churchill/>.
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