Week 5 Disscussion - HUM 200 PDF

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Week 5 Disscussion - HUM 200
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5-1 Discussion: Considering Your Audience Up to this point in the course, you have focused on the academic process of researching, evaluating sources, and writing an exploration document that is mostly for you and your instructor. This week, you started to look into evaluating your audience for a presentation and considering how you might tailor your writing or speaking to fit a specific audience. What challenges does trying to communicate your analysis of a work of art, literature, or music present? In your post, describe a time you had to explain the impact of a song, television show, book, movie, or some other work from the humanities to someone who was not familiar with the work. In your post, make sure you answer the following questions: -

How did explaining the impact of the work go? What challenges arose? How did your explanation change based on your audience’s education level, age, gender, cultural background, relationship to you, and so on?

As you respond to your peers, pick one example of something being described (e.g., a song, TV show, book, or movie) that you are unfamiliar with. What kind of explanation could have helped you (the audience) understand its impact? Why?

Response The biggest challenge I see when it’s time for the final PowerPoint, is shortening my explanations. So far, my project is very wordy and longer than it should be. I need to find a way to get my point across in fewer sentences. Putting all this information on a PowerPoint would not keep the audience engaged; it should be direct and to the point. My favorite comedian is Bo Burnham; and I think his comedy specials are brilliant. His comedy style is different from most comics; satire, is a better way to describe his shows. I once tried to get my sister to watch his Netflix specials and I was explaining some of the jokes and out of context they can sound outlandish or offensive. She didn’t know him, so she didn’t know the kind of comedy he does. Then, I tried to show her a clip, but I had already ruined the joke and because she didn’t know he was being sarcastic, she didn’t think it was funny. I thought it was obvious he was exaggerating to the point of ridiculousness; but because she wasn’t familiar with his work she didn’t understand....