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Please read the following questions and post a response.

1. Below is a list of important words and phrases taken from the Afterword.  Discuss the connotations of some of these words, and use your answers in part (1) to formulate your answers in part (2).
2. How do these words and phrases contribute to the tone of the Afterword?  What is Pink’s tone?

• “your future will depend”
• “fault line”
• “obliterating”
• “peril”
• “world moves at a furious pace”
• “move fast”
• “suffer”
• “The choice is yours.”
• “unkind”

Read the following questions and respond to two of them.

1. How does the author, Daniel H. Pink, establish ethos?
2. Pink states towards the beginning that he simplifies the material within the book.  One blogger, Alex Reid (of Digital Digs blog), states, “Pink’s questions [regarding survival in this right-brainded dominated era] make sense, but like much in his book, they are a little oversimplified.”  Discuss Pink’s reasoning in simplifying his book.  (Hint:  Refer to the Rhetorical Triangle.)
3. Pink divides up the past 150 years into “acts” as if they were part of a play.  How does this metaphor relate to his overall topic that R-directed thinking will inherit the future?  Refer to page 48 to read this metaphor.

Graphic from Daniel Pink’s Website.  Edited using Microsoft PowerPoint 2003.