Chapter 15 Goodness

Chapter 15 dives into an explanation of how deductive reasoning can help influence the outcome of your speech. What I learned from this section was that it was not only essential to include a major premise, minor premise and a conclusion, but also to integrate it so that the topic and general purpose do not interfere with how the rest of the speech and/or paper goes. If one can successfully integrate some deductive reasoning into his or her paper, he or she will have a very big impact on the audience and create a stronger essay. Every component, particularly in our upcoming actuative speech, is vital, especially with those parts that concern swaying the ideas of your audience. Chapter 15 also described inductive reasoning which I believe is also vital in contributing to a speeches idea. Supporting a claim by example, I believe, is one of the strongest things you can do to put an image in the audiences' mind.