I read Jasper’s response. I found that we have different idea with one important thing that makes an argument more effective. For Jasper, he thinks to understand the purpose of the paper is more effective and he gives his own example. For the essay 3, Jasper chose the same topic with the speech that he had done before. However, the purpose of the past speech and the argument for essay 3 is totally different. For the past speech, he mainly focused on solving food insecurity for college students, but for this time, his purpose is to solve food insecurity for those who suffered through the pandemic. I think it is a good example of different purpose of the past purpose and the current purpose, even though their topic is the same. And for me, I think good interaction with audiences is also important. According to the reading, successful presenters always use a lot of body languages and have many eye contacts with audiences. I agree with that. When I was listening to other’s speech in a past class, I felt that I paid more attention on those who used many gestures and had as much eye contact as they could than those who was delivering a speech with only standing there and speaking like reading a book.

For the Forbes article, Jasper likes the first strategy, Know what you want, because it is pretty similar to knowing the purpose. And I found that to persuade audiences, understanding audiences position is very helpful to convince them.