Conveying Information
The way that information is transferred from writing to paper is very important. Writing can be especially difficult to get certain emotions, or ways of thinking across to a certain audience through writing. It is a delicate balance between getting a certain point across without being too overbearing with a definite way of writing. When it comes to writing, having a delicate viewpoint on every aspect in writing can help get a point across. Writing’s from Paulo Freire, Deborah Tannen, and Theodore Rosak show the strengths and weaknesses of each aspect of writing. Writing to convey information or persuade an audience should be in a peaceful and tactful way. The three main aspects to writing that have the most impact on the…show more content… A better way to convey information is to have a tactful tone. Being respectful to both sides of an argument, information, and just writing in general will give a professional presence in the writing and it is something that everyone should use when writing. When someone is writing to persuading an audience, they should let the person decide for themselves, not trying to force certain viewpoints at them. If someone wants to agree with a certain side of an argument, they will. Making one side of an argument seem worse by using a belligerent tone will not necessarily make someone see a specific way. Letting someone choose for themselves is the best route to a successful paper. For example, Deborah Tannen states in her article, “Yet speaking in a classroom is more congenial to boys' language experience than to girls', since it entails putting oneself forward in front of a large group of people, many of whom are strangers and at least one of whom is sure to judge speakers' knowledge and intelligence by their verbal display” (2). This is an example of a tactful tone. Gender assumptions are a very sensitive situation that can offend people easily. And she does give her opinion in that sentence, but it is not aggressive. She does not compare a certain group of people to necrophiliacs. This gets her point across without demeaning the other…show more content… Using sources and having actual evidence behind information will make it much more credible and will allow the audience to believe what a writer is saying. It has more of an impact when trying to get a message across to the audience or trying to persuade them a certain way. For instance, “In Rorschach psychological testing, the subject is presented with a meaningless arrangement of blots or marks on the page” (Rosak 89). Now, he did not use a source here but he used something that is scientifically proven. And by doing this he conveys information much better than he would of if he just said something off the top of his head or an observation with no evidence behind
