Consider This an Invitation

Consider This an Invitation

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Question

Week 2 discussion

Consider This an Invitation

We have been discussing developing the critical ability to identify your audience accurately. Unit 2: Understanding Your Audience, addresses this need in detail.

This can be crucial to generating a meaningful report, or a compelling proposal. Audiences are first and foremost people. That is what we mean when we speak of reader-centered writing, where the focus is on writing to a particular audience: its needs, preferences, biases, likes and dislikes, talents, habits, educational level, level of understanding of the subject. This is an opportunity to practice writing to an audience of one person.

For this Discussion, first choose anyone besides yourself who posted in Week Zero Introductions. Got that? Good. You are about to write that person a short note.

You are writing in your capacity as Entertainment Chair for your organization's Benefit Show for Friday, June 3. You've just learned that the stand-up comic you'd scheduled for a five-minute segment to open the show can't make it, but it occurs to you that the person you've selected from Week Zero posts would be ideal, based on the information she or he provided in their bio.

Please create a new topic titled [person’s first name], We Need You!

In a paragraph (two at most) please explain your dilemma and why, based on what you know from their bio, you think they'd be perfect to fill in as the stand-up comic.

If someone else writes you, you may of course respond, with acceptance, or regrets.

DQ2

General Odierno on Ethics

In your Module Reading this week, you will see a brief discussion on Ethics. You can find it by following this link: Commentary.

Recently, General Ray Odierno discussed the topic of professional ethics in a Symposium. Please read the full article http://www.army.mil/article/130849/CSA__Ethical_dilemmas_pose_tough_calls_for_Soldiers/

After reading the article, please answer EITHER question 1 or question 2, AND question 3.

1. In military life, have you seen examples of this progressive compromise in your own career? Without violating any confidentiality concerns, briefly describe the situation or process you encountered.

2. In civilian life, either in academics or in business (or even in personal circumstances), have you seen developing issues that seem to support or contrast with General Odierno's concerns? Without raising confidentiality issues, describe them.

3. What did you learn from the situation you describe that you think may be of lasting benefit to you in your professional choices?