The document describes the author's shift in perspective before, during, and after a car accident involving their best friend Tommy. Originally judgmental of teenagers, the author began to change their views after Tommy was blamed for the death of another driver from injuries in the crash. The author used examples, description, and cause-and-effect explanation to show how the accident prompted realizations about not making assumptions and being more open-minded.

1. By: Josie Patch
WRD 110
"It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of
wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty." –
Dalai Lama

2.  My position shift
• Before
• During
• After
 RhetoricalSituations/Strategies
 Works Cited

3.  Judgmental of people my age
 Assumed everyone was partying
 All tragedies with teens were probably their
fault
 Tried to change stereotype by acting
differently

4.  Car accident
 My best friend Tommy was the driver
 The other driver passed away because of
injuries
 The news article got posted online and
everyone blamed Tommy
• Started to change my thoughts

5.  Open minded
 Important not to assume everything based
on stereotypes

6.  Exemplification
 Description
 Cause & Effect
 Compare& Contrast
 Purpose
 Context
 Medium
 Audience

7. Iused different examples of my actions to
show my audience how I felt before my
position shift

8. Iput a lot of emphasis on the description of
the car accident
• Meant to make people that weren’t necessarily
involved feel like they were

9. Iwent into detail about a certain event
during the period of the accident
• Help to put better emphasis on my purpose to
inform my audience of the shift that I went through
 Thatone exact point during the whole
thing helped to change my opinions

10.  Throughout the whole podcast I explained
the differences between who I was then as
opposed to who I am now

11.  My purpose was to inform my audience of
my position shift
 Also to persuade to have the same shift I
did

12.  Created a podcast to tell my story orally as
well as wrote an essay to help people
better understand position shift
 Also read it and relate to it from a different
perspective instead of just listening

13.  Podcast was limited to a certain amount of
time
 Couldn’t use as much description about
the accident or elaborate on some things
as much

14.  Audience consisted of people my age
 I took an informal approach but still kept it
somewhat professional
 To help my audience better understand by
before I proposed a situation
 Went into greater detail describing Tommy
because no one knew him

15. ADULTS FRIENDS
 Would emphasize more on  Would focus more on
what Tommy went through position shift since they
to help them get more of a already know the story and
teenagers perspective how we felt in great detail
 Also emphasize more on  Wouldn’t have to talk as
what kind of a person he much about who Tommy is
was for his school