Going out with a Bang

               As I’m sure all of you heard Dick Clark has sadly passed away.  As I found out later yesterday many people don’t know who Dick Clark is. Honestly the only reason I know him is because of the TV show friends, Monica and Ross are obsessed with him and his rockin’ New Years Eve show. So now in my mind Dick Clark, uses the bridge of friends, to make me think of New Years Eve.

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            While I doubt anyone in my generation will feel any difference December 31^st 2012 when Dick Clark isn’t there to welcome us into the new year, it did bring up something important about rhetoric. The ending. ( I didn’t mean that in reference to Dick Clark’s death, but rather the end of the year…). I felt that this topic was even more appropriate considering this is my last obligatory blog entry. I feel as though a lot of emphasis is given to sentence structure, grammar, and information in the body of a piece of work. But when people read a paper or listen to a speech the things that stay in their memory are the beginning and the end. So what is the right way to end a piece of rhetoric? There are many different approaches but the worst way to end it is by a “well, that’s it!”. BORING. I like when people leave you with something to keep your brain thinking, or by tying the subject in with my life. I like when people have a catchy ending that is equal parts moving and thought provoking. I prefer to have my intro be broad, then get specific in my body, and then go broad again in my conclusion. The opposite way is effective too, and more effective in speeches (at least in my opinion). On New Years Eve we choose to go out with a bang: fire works, champagne and a kiss; why shouldn’t it be the same in rhetoric?