Her claims about the dangers about speaking for others include the idea of ritual  of speaking (bringing speech into a social sphere will be helpful in our activities with boys and girls club), and it seems that this concept of speaking implies that one cannot be objective at all.

the statement that a model of the subject person is made when one speak for or about them (or ourselves) seems relevant to our project inspeaking for the boy’s and girl’s club: we are going to have to hghlight some of their characteristics as people, and not tell others, in accordance to our purpose.

Alcoff’s suggestions for evaluating discourse so that one may decrease the dangers of speaking for others set up a framework through which we can look at our roles with the boys and girls club, and service in general: 1) one should interrogate the impulse to speak can be reformulated to question impulses to serve. 2)One must analyze the affects ones location and context have on what is said: affects on what service is and does. 3) Accountability and reponsibility for what one says; in practice, this involves being open to actively understanding criticism: accountability and responsibility are implied in popular conception of service, but not extended to include damages. 4) one must analyze probable effects of words on the discursive and material context – where is the claim going and what it does there; this relates a lot to the kind of writing Jentery has been guiding us towards: not only looking at how things come to be but also extending these claims into the future – questions about effects.

Alcoff’s approach to speech in a social context can be used to study our service at the club. We can start to think about the context we are doing it in, service-learning, who we are, why such a club was set up, why service-learning exists, how our service may be received. The analysis of service or speech within a social framweork is to the purpose of improving our ability to increase effectiveness.

Her article was useful to me because it advocates for a multi-dimentional analysis of something; an approach that can be used in organizing essays, making claims, increasing the good that comes from any service, and relates to the class, or to any academic pursuit, because it recognizes the modes of production: it questioned the production of meaning, truth, effects.