WRD110 Albright-P1 PPT submition

1. Josh Albright

2.  "I do not believe that
any type of religion
should ever be
introduced into the
public schools of the
United States." –
Thomas Edison

3. Content Preview Slide
 Assignment purpose(slides 4-5)
 Thesis Statement(6)
 Before/during/after position change(7-11)
 Methods for communicating with the audience (12-14)
 Purpose of Communication (15)
 Works Cited Page(16)

4. Assignment Purpose
 The purpose of this assignment is to examine a
position shift in fine detail that we have personally
experienced in life

5. Assignment Purpose Cont.
 By doing this, we will further grasp how exactly we
communicate our position shift with our audience

6. Thesis Statement
 I have formed an opinion: religion should be absent
from public school systems due to the absence of a
universally accepted religion.

7. Before Shift
 Before my shift I believed that public schools should
integrate religion with their curriculums
 Some examples of these activities would include:
 Prayer
 Listing the Ten Commandments of Christianity in
classrooms

8. Before cont.
 I adopted these feelings at an early age mainly due to
the fact that they were the feelings that the majority of
the adults in my life had

9. During the Shift
 I began to realize that people at my school who didn’t
belong to Christianity were being treated as outcasts
and unfairly

10. During cont.
 What really helped me was to imagine myself in their
position and feel how awful it would be to be have to
live that way
 This made it clear to me that school was a place merely
meant for gathering to learn and nothing else

11. After the Shift
 After I developed my newfound stance I felt more
comfortable around those from other religions and
began to realize that religion isn’t the only thing that
defines who a person is
 My stance has been reinforced even more after moving
from Corbin, KY to a more religiously diverse
university like UK

12. Methods Used for Communicating
with the Audience
 Persuasion- for this particular position shift I found it
easiest to use persuasion to help in guiding my peers to
understand my newfound opinion

13. Methods cont.
 Clarity- It was very
important for me to be
clear to my audience on
what exactly my opinion
was so that I wouldn’t
confuse them
 I tried not to bounce
around off subject too
much so that the picture
I was attempting to
paint wouldn’t become
foggy

14. Methods cont.
 Audience characteristics-It’s important to understand
the audience and what they’ve experienced in order to
effectively communicate
 My typical audience description-
 High school students
 Consisting of all religions
 Male or female
 Not much religious diversity experience

15. Purpose of Communication
 The purpose of communication is truly the most
important part, it’s the whole reason you’re actually
communicating
 For me, my purpose was to both persuade people and
to educate them as well

16. Works Cited Page
 Edison, Thomas. n.d. “9 historic quotes that show
religion should be kept out of public schools,”
examiner.com. n.d.
 Anderson, Abraham. Thomas Alva Edison. 1890. Oil on
canvas. National Portrait Gallery, Washington.
 Monet, Claude. Houses of Parliament, London. 1900-
1901. Oil on canvas. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago.