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Essay 1 Outline Template
1. Give the speaker's name and title from your TED Talk.
Mark Ronson 2. Copy/paste the url address of your TED Talk.
https://www.ted.com/talks/mark_ronson_how_sampling_transformed_music 3. Write a few sentences giving the main ideas of the talk. What is
the talk about?
The main idea of the talk is about how sampling has changed music forever. He also demonstrates and talks about how sampling in music has evolved through time and will keep doing so. 4. Thesis statement
: Write one sentence giving your thought about whether or not the speaker uses ethos, pathos, and logos well in the talk. Mark Ronson successfully uses Ethos and Logos through his talk in multiple different ways helping the audience get a better understanding of the topic as well as proving his credibility. 5. Topic sentence for Your First Body Paragraph.
Select one of the three appeals (ethos, pathos, or logos) and write a sentence about how well you think the speaker used this appeal in the talk. This sentence will be your main idea for the first body paragraph. ___
The speaker uses Ethos to a great extent in a variety of very successful manners. a. Example 1: Give one example of the speaker using the appeal (ethos, pathos, or logos) in the speech.
Ronson starts out this ted talk in an odd way, instead of talking he
starts by live mixing and producing a song with samples of past ted talks,
b. Analysis of example. Give one sentence explaining why this example would or would not help to convince the audience.
This small example helps to unkowingly create credibility with the
audience as someone who knows what he is doing and talking about when it comes to music and not just a random person. c. Example 2: Give a second example of the speaker using this appeal (ethos, pathos, or logos):__
“You have to take an element of those things and then bring something fresh and new to it, which was sum that I learned when
I was working with the late amazing Amy Whitehouse n her album
Back to Black.” Ronson talks about his personal experience working with the
famous Amy Whitehouse demonstrating and showing his credibility. d. Analysis of Example 2: Give one sentence explaining why this example would or would not help to convince the audience.___
Ronson talks about his personal experience working with the
famous Amy Whitehouse demonstrating and showing his credibility in the music industry and as a producer and DJ. 6. Topic sentence for Your Second Body Paragraph
: Select one of the three appeals (ethos, pathos, or logos) and write a
sentence about how well you think the speaker used this appeal in the talk. This sentence will be your main idea for the second body paragraph
I feel like the speaker used Logos in a highly effective yet odd way to demonstrate and get his point across about how sampling transformed music. a. Example 1: Give one example of the speaker using the appeal (ethos, pathos, or logos) in the speech.
“Thats La Di Da DI it's the fifth most sampled song of all time it's been sampled 547 times it was made in 1984-.”
b. Analysis of example. Give one sentence explaining why this example would or would not help to convince the audience.
Here the speaker uses Logos in an effective way by playing the song and then stating precise information about the record and how many times it has been sampled. c. Example 2: Give a second example of the speaker using this appeal (ethos, pathos, or logos):__
Here Ronson plays an older Biggie as well as a newer Miley Cyrus song that both sample La Di da Di.
Example 2: Give one sentence explaining why this example would
or would not help to convince the audience.
This is a great example to show the audience and demonstrate how sampling has transformed music and keeps evolving through time by playing an older song and then a newer song that both sample the same piece in two different ways at two separate times.
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7. Topic Sentence for the Third Body Paragraph
. Select a rhetorical device (ex. repetition, imagery, allusion, figurative language, metaphor, diction) from the talk OR the structure of the
talk. How does the speaker use this device or structure to help reach the audience? This sentence will be your main idea for the third body paragraph.
The speaker here uses lots of repetition in music to make it easier, more understanding to the audience and especially to get his point across. a. Example 1: Give one example of the speaker's device or structure.
Ronson does this by structuring his talk with lots of music and sound presentations thought his talk. b. Analysis of example. Give one sentence explaining why this example would or would not help to convince the audience.
He starts his presentation by making a song out of ted talk samples, as well as ends it by doing the same. He does this to demonstrate his point of how transformative sampling has been in music.
c. Example 2: Give a second example of the speaker's device or structure:
He plays the song La DI Da Di and mentions it through his presentation. And then ties it together with examples of other songs sampling it. d. Analysis of Example 2: Give one sentence explaining why this example would or would not help to convince the audience.
This example would also help convince the audience about how sampling transformed music and has evolved through time and different music Genres. The repetition also makes it easier for the
audience to catch the sample of La Di Da Di in other examples of music shown by Ronson. 8. Conclusion
: Write a sentence about why it could be important to use rhetoric well when arguing about the topic of this speech.
It is really important to use rhetoric in a well-made argument in order to help get your point across and make it easier for the audience as well as to subconsciously make them more agreeable
with your topic. 9. Give the MLA citation of your TED Talk. This gives more information than the url address, and we use a specific format. Here's an example of the citation for a TED Talk: Ronson, Mark. “How Sampling Transformed Music.” TED. March 2014. Mark Ronson: How sampling transformed music