Jennifer Doudna Persuasive Essay

Upon searching through the options on TED talks, there were a bunch of topics that sounded quite interesting but, this specific one on changing human DNA really sounded catchy. The speaker Jennifer Doudna invented a new technology that could quite frankly help cure and or eliminate genetic diseases. Doudna’s opening phrase was similar to a story about how her and a former scientist discovered the idea of the groundbreaking technology. Her opening statement was strong but it could of been more catchy while she intrigued her audience, there could of been more fascinating ways to go about accomplishing that. Immediately following her explanation of this groundbreaking new medical technology, she goes into more detail and explains to the audience …show more content…
Doudna’s posture is not that great she is grounded (like any speaker should be) but she is shifting more weight to one side of her body instead of being square and having open posture to the audience. Posture for a speech should be at least square to the audience and maintaining a distribution of weight between both legs and or sides of the body. Posture is one key and important concept of a speech that could make or break a speech. The transitions she used were good, grounded and strong, but they needed to be a little more bolder. Transitions should be obvious to the audience but at the same time they should flow with the layout or “blueprint” of the speech that is being given. There was a section in the speech when it sounded like the speaker was going to list the three or four main points of the speech, but then she moved on to another “sub topic” and went off track just a little bit. The speaker finally gives four main topics of discussion as a transition into the first topic of interest. She made her points clear concise and displayed what she was going to talk about clearly to the audience, which is a signal for the audience saying that the speaker is getting ready to move to the body paragraph of their