What is the speaker’s purpose and viewpoint in “acres of diamonds”? how does the speaker use rhetoric to advance his purpose and clearly convey his viewpoint? use evidence from the text to support your response. your response should be one or two complete paragraphs.

russel h. conwell, the author of this book "acres of diamonds" makes a lot of emphasis in two aspects:

conwell talked about this hundred of times in usa and another countries, and he was convinced that success is within ourselves does not matter if we think our personal sources are useless.

his purpose was to show other people that we all have abilities and most of the times we do not know them.

rhetoric is the art of speaking or writing, is the art of express an idea in a fancy way, getting others attention and convince them so they accept that idea. conwell was a conferencist, and he really enjoyed talking in public, but the most important thing was his example. he helped his students and always was concerned about their overcoming. that example was the mainkey, that is why his work has helped companies, organizations, and had also inspired other great conferencists.

compare & contrast informative essay/speech

when speaking or writing for the sole purpose of providing information in order to give audience members a good basis for making a decision, you would present an informative speech or essay.   because you wouldn’t want to be persuading the audience by arguing for one type of exercise over the other, you wouldn’t choose a persuasive/argumentative technique.   to fairly, and without bias, present information about the pros and cons of each type exercise, a compare/contrast, informative speech/essay would be the best bet.

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