Know your audience or reader: Your informative presentation – whether through speech or essay – should cover a subject not already well known to your audience, but still relevant to them. If you do choose a topic they’re familiar with, then present new and exciting information. Consider the age, knowledge level, and interests of your audience when preparing your informational speech or essay.
Consider your own interests: Think of your own passions and areas of expertise that you think people could benefit from learning more about. Choosing a topic you care about will help your speech or essay be better received. Your passion will keep them engaged and curious to learn more.
Consider length requirements: How much time are you allotted for your informative speech? What is the page requirement for your informative essay? You should be able to thoroughly cover the topic in the amount of time you are given. If you don’t think you have enough knowledge or personal interest to talk about illegal drug use among teens, saving money as a college student, or another informative topic for 20 minutes, you may need to consider a different subject.
When I went to the park on Saturday with my ______ we met a dog and it looked beautiful . It had a collar on and a tag but I didn’t want to return it. I got the dog then, played with it. I saw a flyer for a lost dog and realized that’s the dog I was playing with! I realized that it needed to go home with its family but I didn’t want to let it go. So I didn’t tell anyone about it and kept playing with the dog . Later that same day I went back to the park to look for the dog but I found a little girl crying I felt bad so I went to go ask her if she was okay, she said her dog ran away and that she couldn’t find him anywhere. I asked her to describe the dog and she described the dog as the same one I saw today. I realized I took away a family members of hers so I told her what happened with the dog. She told me I shouldn’t have done that and I realized that you shouldn’t take stuff from people because you don’t know how much it means to them. It was a unforgettable day because I learned a unforgettable lesson that I still use today. I felt really bad for her and promised I wouldn’t do things like that again.
This has 239 words in total. Please fill in the blanks!
Answer:
Henley, Patricia. The Hummingbird House. Denver: MacMurray, 1999.
Print.- book
Krugman, Andrew. "Fear of Eating.” New York Times 21 May 2007, late
ed.: A1. Print.- newspaper article
Aristotle. Poetics. Trans. S. H. Butcher. The Internet Classics Archive.
Web Atomic and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 13 Sept.
2007. Web. 4 Nov. 2008. ‹http://classics.mit.edu/› - website
Answer:
A graceful loser is a person that takes a loss "on the chin" and does not act bitter, but instead congratulates the winner in a non-malicious manner.
For example, if a player loses a tennis match and is quite happy to go across the court to shake the hands of his opponents, wish him well and walk away, then he is a graceful loser.
On the other hand, a person who loses in a less than dignified manner is a person that throws tantrums, complains, or rejects the result of a match because he feels he was treated unfairly or his opponent did not deserve the win.
An example is a tennis player attacking the umpire, shouting and rejecting the outcome because he feels some of the umpire's calls were wrong and his opponent was lucky to win
