Prepare a 4-5 minute presentation that persuades the audience that a certain practice in contemporary United States society is morally right or wrong.

Persuasive Value Presentation (4-5 minutes): Students prepare a 4-5 minute presentation that persuades the audience that a certain practice in contemporary United States society is morally right or wrong. This presentation will persuade the student audience of the value of a specific practice (good vs. bad, moral vs. immoral, right vs. wrong) based on a philosophical or religious way of thinking, exploring ethical concepts.

The practice you examine can be an action, pattern of behavior, policy, or law. Choose something that is currently debated as controversial and will interest the student audience. Defend the practice as right or wrong using ethical arguments that are religious or philosophical in nature. Draw support for your viewpoint by applying the ethical framework of Pope Francis, Marti Kheel, Exodus 20, Qu’ran 6 &17, Benjamin Franklin, or Susan Wolf (choose one) and discussing evidence from 2 reputable outside sources.

In this presentation, you will defend your chosen practice as right or wrong. Then, in the next course presentation, you will persuade the audience to take some action regarding it (change their behavior, support a new law, etc.). So, you can keep that in mind in choosing a topic.

Assignment Requirement

The presentation needs to include a clear and well-articulated persuasive purpose that identifies the relevance of the topic to the audience and identifies an important topic for discussion.

In addition, students will continue to expand their extemporaneous speaking skills, developing consistent eye contact with the audience throughout the presentation and integrating appropriate gestures to increase audience engagement. Students will continue to develop vocal variety (rate, volume, tone, and use of pauses) to enhance audience engagement and speaker credibility.

This presentation requires the student to implement presentation software such as PowerPoint or Keynote as a visual aid (4-5 content slides and a References list slide). Slides for this presentation should be developed using assertion-evidence based design.

Each slide should include a sentence headline stating the main message of the slide (your assertion) and some type of visual evidence (a photograph, chart, or diagram) that supports it. Do not include bullet point lists or extensive text beyond the assertion sentence. Images must be high-quality, and font and color palate should be clean, readable, and professional.

More details about grading criteria are included on the rubric that accompanies this assignment. For this online course, the final rubric item will concern correct submission of the video slideshow to the presentation assignment using Canvas Studio.

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