A Rhetorical Analysis Of Speech By Mike Biddle

Strengths: Mike Biddle presents many strengths in his presentation such as how he captivates the audience in the beginning by helping them visualize how younger children perceive things around them and how they always want more. He adds a humoristic tone in his introductory statements but quickly gears the audience to a more serious outlook about recycling. He goes into depth about how 90 percent of the stuff that we recycle is reused for other purposes which makes the audience agree with him that recycling is beneficial. He then was able to talk about how plastic is a valuable material and only five percent of it is recycled. I think he did a good job talking about how we recycle metals more than we do plastics which emphasizes that we’re not recovering valuable materials that is harder to obtain. …show more content…
He talked about how in order to make plastics, we need oil. We go to remote locations just to drill into wells and extract different oils. He made a point that the economic and environmental implications are becoming more noticeable but he does not explain how. He should have provided reasoning to his evidence to help the audience better understand how hard it is to obtain plastic. Another problem that occurred was the use of jargon in his speech. The audience won’t understand what somebody is telling them if they do not understand the vocabulary that the presenter is using without defining it. He mentions the word “petrochemicals” but the audience loses focus on the rest of the speech because they are trying to decipher what that word means and how it correlates to the