Jimmy wales
Jimmy Wales
Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about Jimmy Wales as the builder of Wikipedia.
Introduction:
A. Attention Getter: “The mission of Wikipedia is not just creating a killer website, but affect the world in a positive way.” Said by Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia. (Jimmy Wales, n.d.)
B. Relevance: According to the research on citations of Wikipedia, Along with the increasing number of citations, another indicator that Wikipedia may be gaining respectability is its citation by well-known scholars. (Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 2008)
C. Credibility: As an honest user of Wikipedia for 10 years, since junior high school, I have been interested in Jimmy Wales for his awesome idea of building this amazing open-resource encyclopedia for years.
D. Thesis Statement: Jimmy Wales, as one of the founders of Wikipedia, the world’s largest collaborative encyclopedia on the Web, has a great contribution to not only the network society, but also to the world.
Transition: Now you may have some idea of who Jimmy Wales is, then let us look at how he contributed to this world.
Body:
Main point A: Wikipedia was only a simple dream of Jimmy Wales, to build a “growing-content” encyclopedia. (Jimmy Wales, n.d.)
A. Jimmy Wales set his life goal as creating a free-online encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to everyone on the planet in their own languages,that was original model of Wikipedia.
B. Another point Jimmy Wales is taking as a mission is to show the positive side of network from sharing and combing wisdom and knowledge via Wikipedia.
Directional Transition: Jimmy Wales and Wiki-works not only works in network society, but also have great contribution to people all over the world.
Main point B: Jimmy Wales made Wikipedia achieve the goal to let people with limit resource know the world with only a computer connected to network, for the reason that culture and knowledge should be free and equal to everyone.
Transition: I guess
Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about Jimmy Wales as the builder of Wikipedia.
Introduction:
A. Attention Getter: “The mission of Wikipedia is not just creating a killer website, but affect the world in a positive way.” Said by Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia. (Jimmy Wales, n.d.)
B. Relevance: According to the research on citations of Wikipedia, Along with the increasing number of citations, another indicator that Wikipedia may be gaining respectability is its citation by well-known scholars. (Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 2008)
C. Credibility: As an honest user of Wikipedia for 10 years, since junior high school, I have been interested in Jimmy Wales for his awesome idea of building this amazing open-resource encyclopedia for years.
D. Thesis Statement: Jimmy Wales, as one of the founders of Wikipedia, the world’s largest collaborative encyclopedia on the Web, has a great contribution to not only the network society, but also to the world.
Transition: Now you may have some idea of who Jimmy Wales is, then let us look at how he contributed to this world.
Body:
Main point A: Wikipedia was only a simple dream of Jimmy Wales, to build a “growing-content” encyclopedia. (Jimmy Wales, n.d.)
A. Jimmy Wales set his life goal as creating a free-online encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to everyone on the planet in their own languages,that was original model of Wikipedia.
B. Another point Jimmy Wales is taking as a mission is to show the positive side of network from sharing and combing wisdom and knowledge via Wikipedia.
Directional Transition: Jimmy Wales and Wiki-works not only works in network society, but also have great contribution to people all over the world.
Main point B: Jimmy Wales made Wikipedia achieve the goal to let people with limit resource know the world with only a computer connected to network, for the reason that culture and knowledge should be free and equal to everyone.
Transition: I guess