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After reading "Digital Dive: Conclusions about Conclusions", consider the questions below. Then “submit” your response.
1. What is the topic of each speech?
Correct answers will vary. Correct answers should mention car cooking as the topic for the first speech and the science of dreams as the topic for the second speech. For more help, see The Thesis Statement.
2. What is the thesis of each speech?
Correct answers will vary. Correct answers should mention how in the first speech, the speaker used car cooking when he was young and still uses it now that he is older. Correct answers should mention how in the second speech, dreaming, although mysterious, is a fascinating achievement of the human brain. For more help, see The Thesis Statement.
3. What are the main points of each speech?
Correct answers will vary. Correct answers should consider that in the first speech, the speaker does not really mention main points associated with car cooking. Correct answers should also consider that in the second speech, main points include how the psychoanalysis of dreams helps us to understand them; the meaning of dreams; and the correlation between dreaming, REM sleep, and well-being. For more help, see Concluding Your Speech.
4. Which conclusion is stronger? Why?
Correct answers will vary. Correct answers should mention how in the science of dreaming speech, the speaker summarizes the thesis and main points of the speech and provides a call to action, and how the car cooking speech’s conclusion is very abrupt and doesn’t include all of the parts mentioned in the textbook. For more help, see Concluding Your Speech.