Ursula Fialho
Short Paper #2
To respond to the first question in hands here, of what is our job as students of speech and persuasion? Are we supposed to help these speakers achieve their goals, or are we supposed to improve their argumentation or communication? As students, we are constantly learning so many approaches to speech criticism, different ways of breaking down a text and evaluating the author, the text, the purpose, the audience, the effectiveness. And with that, as students we should be applying all forms of criticism to achieve the best reflection and evaluation of weather that speech was effective in some ways or others.
In some instances, we will choose what type of evaluation we want to get out of the text being read. But regardless of the purpose of the criticism, I believe we directly or indirectly expose or reflect our own views as we are criticizing any work. As we use words to communicate, the way we arrange our thoughts, apply any of the learned techniques to criticism, we are in someway projecting our own opinions.
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Something like, we are not only informed regarding to the understanding of the event, but also urged to think about that event, engage in it, and somehow makes us want to contribute to make change happen. This way we are taking the moral judgment a step above, and we can look at it as a way of us trying to make sense of our world and trying to understand what something is, how it will impact our own lives, if we can somehow morally justify it, taking us to make a critical assessment what should have been done, or even what can now be done to rectify