Overview: In this assignment you will research, prepare, rehearse, and record and upload (using the canvas media editor) a persuasive speech.
Requirements:
Your speech should adhere to the persuasive speaking guidelines discussed in this module . Pay particular attention to key organizational elements in the introduction, body, and conclusion. Try to follow Monroe’s Motivated Sequence and have a specific action step.
Utilize clear source citations prior to any quoted material. Quote a minimum of four credible sources. Additionally, you should follow the best practices standards described on the how to video tape a speech in canvas page How to Record and Submit a Media Recording. The speech should be between 4 and 5 minutes long.
Directions:
Choose a topic from the Persuasive Speech Topics, or use a topic you have approved . Find at least four credible quotations to support your main points. Make sure you make note of the author of the citation, their credentials, and the date.
Following the outline described in the Persuasive Speech Structure, construct a 4-5 minute speech. Using a single note card (with your outline and quoted sources on it), rehearse the speech at least three times standing.
Record and submit the speech using the canvas media editor. Remember to stand, maintain consistent eye contact, speak loudly, and gesture. BTW-always give canvas some time to save-you may hit the save key and nothing will happen. Wifi speeds seem to impact this. The assignment is due July 26 by 11:59 PM
Grading Criteria: There are 20 points possible. To receive full credit your speech must include the following:
1. Topic: was your topic selected from advocacy speech topic page, or approved by me?
2. Introduction: do you start with an attention getter, include a preview?
3. Body: do you have a clear problem and call to action?
4. Body: do you utilize at least four quoted sources to support your body points?
5. Body: do you use transitions between body points?
6. Delivery: are you speaking in a clear, assertive voice, reasonably free of verbal non fluencies (uhm, like,etc).?
7: Delivery: do you maintain consistent eye contact (allowing for looking at card occasionally)?
8. Delivery: are you standing?
9. Delivery: are you gesturing?
10. Conclusion: do you include a summary and closure?
Topics and Guidelines
Why you should become a vegetarian.
Why you should not buy electric cars
Why you should try to exclusively buy products made in America
Why you should support a third party candidate
Why consumerism is detrimental
Why we shouldn’t believe the news
Why we should support a charity (be specific-pick a charity and tell us why and how to support it)
The Structure
The Attention Step
This is not a shocker but the first thing you do is get the audience’s attention. So you want a good dramatic quotation or startling statistic. Just like the advocacy speech, you can combine the two so you give an attention grabbing example and follow it up with a statistic that emphasizes how often that thing happens.
The Need Step
This is the problem area-like in the advocacy speech. Here you are going to unpack the problem and why it matters. Just like with the advocacy speech, use stories and quotations to build pathos.
The Satisfaction Step
Here you let the audience know in general terms how the problem can be addressed. So if the problem is hunger, you could discuss programs that are working through the schools to help with that.
The Visualization Step
In this step you talk about the advantages of solving the problem. You are trying to get the audience to visualize the world after you implement the solution. You don’t have to over claim how effective the solution would be-eg your speech isn’t going to end hunger-you want to phrase it more in terms of making a difference.
Action Step
This is the whole point of the speech-what you want the audience to do about the problem-what specific steps can they take to make the solution happen. You want to be as detailed as possible. For example, if the goal is to get them to write letters to congress, tell them who that is and how they can be contacted. You’ll notice in tv commercials they repeat the phone number they want you to call-at least three times. There is actually this rule that says saying something three times increases the probability it will be memorized. You don’t need to do that in your speech, but that is why they do it. Just be specific about what you want them to do. If the goal was to get them to join an organization that helped with childhood hunger, provide the details.
Answering Objections
If you can think of any reason people might reject a point you are making, raise it and answer it. This is what happens when you want to buy a car, but think the price is too high. The salesperson will talk to you about leasing or extending the terms of the purchase.
Outline
Incorporating those steps into the outlines give us something like this:
I. Introduction (attention step)
A. Attention Getter
B. Thesis
C. Preview
II. Body
A. The Need Step/Problem
B. The Satisfaction Step/General Solution
C. The Visualization Step/Advantages of implementing the solution
D. The Action Step-what do you want them to do to make the satisfaction step/solution happen? Be specific
III. Conclusion
A. Summary
