Monday, April 14, 2008

What a day...

I have Management of Technology Presentation this morning. I've read the report the night before, but haven't finished to write the summary of my part. The next morning i overslept and found out that i haven't completed the summary, so i turned on my laptop made a note from the report and wrote an important thing bout the rest of my part in hasty. To make it quick, i wrote:

BENCHMARKING
Identify d best pract frm 1 or more bench. firm, ass the comp. post by comparing prod n serv. w/ d target firm n revise their perf. accord. to d bench. res.


I rocketed to the bathroom, took a bath, and get dressed. I took my black wrist watch, hoping I would get a good luck for today. It's like my "lucky charm", everytime i wear that watch, i get a great day, haha...




When i arrived at class and read my note, i realized that i didn't understand at all what i wrote. Damn... The sentence looked weird and i couldn't determine the meaning of the words.

When it's time to me to present my part, i forgot about the definition of Benchmarking. Looking at the notes was useless because i didn't understand the words there, hehe. So, spontaneously i just said that "Benchmarking is something essential to the company in order to be able to compete with other competition in business."


Analysis:

BENCHMARKING
Identify d best pract frm 1 or more bench. firm, ass the comp. post by comparing prod n serv. w/ d target firm n revise their perf. accord. to d bench. res.
This called vagueness because i was not careful to write the sentence that i wrote to make me understand about the meaning when i read it later

rocketed, i used metaphor because i create a comparative image without comparative quantifier

everytime i wear that watch, i get a great day, i just made a post hoc fallacy, the fact that i get a good day everytime i wear my black watch is not sufficient enough for concluding that i get a great day because i wear my black watch. It might be relevant, but it doesn't prove it.


"Benchmarking is something essential to the company in order to be able to compete with other competition in business."
This called tendentious argument, because i used emotional appeal and tried to persuade the listeners that benchmarking important for the company.







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