Energy engineering - Communication and argumentation B

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Exam Communication and Argumentation If in a report for my manager, I graduated in literature, I write “…there is another major source of forces imposed on a crankshaft, namely piston acceleration. The combined weight of the piston, ring package, wrist pin , retainers, the conrod small end , and a small amount of oil is being continuously accelerated from zero to a very high velocity and back to zero velocity twice each crankshaft revolution”, what is the problem, from a communication point of view? How would you improve this slide? The Titanic is sinking. Someone in a lifeboat tries to persuade the others to go back and save the people in the water by saying, “Those people in the water are children, women, and men with the same right to live as we have.” What argument is being used? What kind of fallacy is the following, and why: "No one has ever proven that aliens do not exist, so they must exist. What kind of starting point does this project proposal choose to adopt? “Traditionally, theatre and performance art have presented a polished final product to audiences, leaving the struggles, rehearsals, and collaborative magic that occurs backstage shrouded in mystery. This approach has unintentionally kept audiences from experiencing a crucial aspect of the art form: the creative process itself. This proposal aims to ex plore the impact of increased backstage visibility and transparency on performing arts audiences Please identify the two mistakes that are present in this text: In the introduction to a proposal, do the following: (1) Identify the motivating need or problem. Ignore the immediate context in which this problem has been highlighted; it's not that importa nt. In external proposals, responding to the published need and motivation as identified by the outside agency is optional. (2) Focus on your proposal by stating the key technical issues, as you perceive them, underlying the motivating problem. (3) State explicitly, and with unbiased language, your objectives.