My Speech Outline

Preparation Outline

PREPARATION OUTLINE

NAME: _______________Tejash Hira_____________________ SECTION: ____017______

TITLE OF SPEECH: ___________________The TejashBook (Still working on tittle)____

Be sure to label learning styles throughout.

Introduction

  I.        Attention Catcher: What reads and lives in an apple ?A bookworm !

 II.       Listener Relevance Link: I use my MacBook for hours everyday.

III.       Speaker Credibility: I have many Apple products but the MacBook was my favorite out of them all. You can do so many things with the MacBook.

IV.       Thesis Statement: I've had this MacBook for only a couple of months and I don't think I can go a day without it.

 V.       Preview: There are just so many things I do with my MacBook.

Transition (optional): 

Body

  I.        First Main Point: Why I spend so much time on it.

            Listener Relevance Link: We use our laptops for a lot of things these days.

            A.  Subpoint: The battery life isn't a big deal when it can last up to 7hours

                  1.  Sub-Subpoint: Get more work done.

                  2.  Sub-Subpoint: 

            B.  Subpoint: Great resolution.

                  1.  Sub-Subpoint: See stuff more clearly

                  2.  Sub-Subpoint: Can adjust brightness.

Transition: 

II.        Second Main Point: It's FAST!

            Listener Relevance Link: We all don't like things that are slow, do we?

            A.  Subpoint: Transitions between pages are fast

                  1.  Sub-Subpoint: Runs really smoothly.

      2.  Sub-Subpoint: Opens up applications fast.

            B.  Subpoint: Don't have to wait ages for an application to open.

                  1.  Sub-Subpoint: iTunes took forever on my old laptop.

                  2.  Sub-Subpoint: Helps when in a hurry.

Transition: 

III.       Third Main Point: You can have it all in one place.

            Listener Relevance Link: Being able to do homework off our computers makes it so much more easier. 

            A.  Subpoint: Can have it all in one place.

                  1.  Sub-Subpoint: Don't have to carry all your books around when you need to do homework.

                  2.  Sub-Subpoint: Also keeps you organized.

            B.  Subpoint: Application store.

                  1.  Sub-Subpoint: Many apps that are useful.

                  2.  Sub-Subpoint:

Transition:

Conclusion

  I.        Restatement of Thesis: I've had this MacBook for only a couple of months and I don't think I can go a day without it.

 II.       Summary of Main Points: The MacBook has an extremely long battery ife which allows you to get more work done. Very fast so that you can pull up files and load stuff up faster when on a hurry. Also you can have it all just sitting right infront of you.

III.       Clincher: This is truly a laptop that everyone wishes they had, sweeps away the competition.

My Social Media Identity -Final Draft

               Hello, I am Tejash Hira and I started became a Facebook addict on June 8, 2008. I made the account that day and didn’t really get into it until about a year later, a month before the first day of my high school career. I saw my brother on Facebook one day and I had no clue what it was until he told me. So I joined in because it was the thing that everyone kept talking about. I didn’t really know what to do with it because I never had a MySpace and wasn’t into those kind of things. But I got into it so much that I would sit on there for an hour or two updating my information for no reason. I even tried to think of some of the funniest statuses or the funniest comments so that I could use to get peoples attention.  I loved it a lot. I would search for all my friends on there to see if they had one and was really excited if they did. I got into it a lot more than I should have. I was a real Facebook addict but I was not the only one.

 (Mark Zuckerberg)

Facebook is a social networking website that was created February 2004 by a man named Mark Zuckerberg and a few of his friends. On August 26, 2008 Facebook had reached its 100 millionth user. It seems like it took a long time for them to get that 100 millionth since it started in February 2004 but no one really knew what Facebook was. I didn’t know what it was until 4 years later. In 2008 Facebook was in a good position for making money. That summer, Facebook was predicted to reach 200 million active users by the end of this year. Facebook was adding between 600,000 and 700,000 users per day, making it most likely to hit the 200 million mark in March. Also, as of June 2012, Facebook had reached its 955 millionth user, with 526 million active users out there. That’s about one seventh of the world’s population at Facebook, making Facebook the most visited website, previously second behind MySpace. In 2010, Facebook went mobile, allowing users to operate their Facebook accounts from their phone.

 (Me being weird)

That was the first Facebook profile picture I had and yes I know I am weird. I took it from my moms phone and I have no clue why I made that face. After putting that as my profile picture I’ve been told that I am very silly but I like it and probably won’t ever change. I never really uploaded many pictures unless it was a worthy picture that would get peoples attentions.

 (My farm that I spent a lot of my time on)

The main thing I did on Facebook was play games on there. I was addicted to Farmville and it became all I played. Facebook had all kinds of things for people to do such as joining groups with similar interests as you, inviting people to events, playing games, listening to music, chatting with friends, or sharing videos and photos. There are also many more but those are just a few. What I found appealing was that you could connect to people that you normally don’t see everyday. I didn’t get a phone until my sophomore year of high school and that sucked because I really couldn’t get a hold of anyone but Facebook gave me a way to do that. But I could send a message to someone off Facebook and it would send that exact message to that persons phone and they could reply back quickly so that I wouldn’t have to wait for them to log onto their Facebook to see the message.

I barely spend 10 minutes on there unless I need to talk to someone that I cant get a hold of another way. But when I first joined Facebook I’d spend about 2 to 3 hours a day on there. I’d either be searching for friends, updating my status, or playing Farmville. I once saw one of my friends status’s and I felt like pissing her off so I decided to try and reach 1000 comments on it, Facebook banned me from posting or commenting for a week or two, it was totally worth it. I was a real Facebook addict and I once got yelled at for getting on Facebook instead of doing my homework.

One of the main reasons I probably spent that much time on there was because that’s all people talked about at school, John did this and Kate did that, was just the hottest thing out at that time. But now I just log on there to see what’s up or to avoid awkward moments. Ill talk to people on there some times but not everyday of my life like I used to. Just not into it as much as I used to be. When I joined my parents were very protective over my Facebook. They set my privacy to where only my friends could see what I was doing. There were some crazy people on MySpace and it wouldn’t take them that long to get to Facebook.

 (This is a picture of my family and the last picture I uploaded to Facebook)

     

Around towards the end of my junior year I stopped using my Facebook and moved onto Twitter. I am proud to say that I don’t use Facebook as much as I used to, it was a big distraction for me. Anything I do with Facebook is seeing whose birthday it is and what’s going on in people’s lives. But I do get on to talk to some friends that went I probably wont see again because they went out of state for school or joined the army. I don’t really update my status anymore because I usually just tweet what’s on my mind. I probably wont deactivate my account because of all the memories I had on there and don’t want to lose them.

http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=28111272130

http://blog.compete.com/2009/02/09/facebook-myspace-twitter-social-network/

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Facebook-Now-Has-901-Million-Monthly-Users-With-3529853.php

My Social Media Identity-Rough Draft

Hello, I am Tejash Hira and I started became a Facebook addict on June 8, 2008. I made the account on that day and didn’t really get into till about a year later. It was a month before the first day of my high school career. I saw my brother on Facebook one day and I had no clue what it was till he told me what it was. So I joined in cause it was the thing that everyone kept talking about. I didn’t really know what to do with it because I never had a MySpace and wasn’t into those kind of things. But I got into so much that I would sit on there for like an hour or two updating my information for no reason. I loved it a lot. I would search for all my friends on there to see if they had one, was really excited to have a Facebook. I got into a lot; I was a real Facebook addict. But I was not the only one.

I barely spend 10 minutes on there unless I need to talk to someone that I cant get a hold of another way. But when I first joined Facebook I’d spend about 2 to 3 hours a day on there. I’d either be searching for friends, updating my status, or playing Farmville. I was a real Facebook addict. I once got yelled at for getting on Facebook instead of doing my homework. One of the main reasons I probably spent that much time on there was because that’s all people talked about at school, John did this and Kate did that, was just the hottest thing out at that time. But now I just log on there to see what’s up or to avoid awkward moments. Ill talk to people on there some times but not everyday of my life like I used to. Just not into it as much as I used to be. When I joined my parents were very protective over my Facebook. They set my privacy to where only my friends could see what I was doing. Their were some crazy people on MySpace and it wouldn’t take them that long to get to Facebook.

On August 26, 2008 Facebook had reached its 100 millionth user. It seems like it took a long time for them to get that 100 millionth since it started in February 2004 but no one really knew what Facebook was. I didn’t know what it was till 4 years later. In 2008 Facebook was in a good position for making money. That summer, Facebook was predicted to reach 200 million active users by the end of this year. Facebook was adding between 600,000 and 700,000 users per day, making it most likely to hit the 200 million mark in March. In 2010, Facebook went mobile. Being able to operate your Facebook account from your phone.

That was the first Facebook profile picture I had and yes I know I am weird. I took it from my moms phone and I have no clue why I made that face. After putting that as my profile picture I’ve been told that I am very silly and weird but I like it and probably wont ever change. I never really uploaded many pictures unless it was a worthy picture that would get peoples attentions. The main thing I did on Facebook was play games on there. I was addicted to Farmville that is all I played. Facebook had all kinds of things for people to do on there, like; joining groups with similar interests as you, inviting people to events, playing games, listening to music, chatting with friends, or sharing videos and photos. There are many more things to do on there but those are just a few. 

The Rhetorical Situation

First thing I did was look how long this article was and I gotta say that I have never read that much since junior year of high school. I got side tracked so much while reading this I could barely understand what the author was saying. Was so boring! But one of the things that did helped me understand what he was saying by giving examples that almost everyone would know about. But most of the examples weren't rhetorical but Bitzer Lloyd brought up some very good examples of rhetorical situations. I wasn't sure what Bitzer was writing about, then after getting in a page or two I realized that a rhetorical situation occurs whenever there is an audience converse over trying to persuade the audience. When explaining these, he went overboard with the excess words and using analogies to previous analogies which did not make sense in the first place. How is it possible to affect the audience with your speech if from the very start they do not understand you and have to strain to see your point. Was just to long for me to understand what he was talking about.

Sources

http://venturebeat.com/2008/12/18/2008-growth-puts-facebook-in-better-position-to-make-money/

http://news.in.msn.com/international/article.aspx?cp-documentid=3570509&=

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18017379

http://journalistsresource.org/studies/society/education/parents-children-facebook-privacy-age/

http://www.theage.com.au/news/general/beware-facebook/2008/01/18/1200620184398.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap2