Create formal outline and works cited sheet for presentation

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Homework: Fundamentals of Oral Communication

Persuasive Speech

This speech is a "practical final" for the speaking portion of this course. The homework allows you to synthesize what we've covered and utilize the information in a speech in which you want your audience members to actually take some kind of action, now or in the future. Controversial topics are great choices for the persuasive speech, but it's not enough to ask your audience to think about a topic. Instead, you should persuade your audience to do something about the topic, to take an action either now or in the future. Many persuasive topics will also need to be narrowed down considerably because they are huge topics with many sides that could be presented.

Some examples:

"Healthy Lifestyle" is a popular persuasive topic, but it is a huge topic that could go in many different directions and it doesn't take a specific "action." Persuading your audience to eat a ketogenic diet to maintain a healthy lifestyle is an action based persuasive topic and much narrower focused than persuading someone to live a healthy life.

"Vaccinations" is a popular persuasive topic, but there are many vaccinations and it isn't a specific "action." Persuading the parents or future parents in your audience to vaccinate or not vaccinate their children for a specific type of vaccination is an action based, specific persuasive topic.

"Capital punishment" is a popular persuasive topic with many sides but it isn't a specific "action." Persuading your audience to contact their state legislatures to ask them to support or eliminate capital punishment in their state is an action based persuasive topic.

"Legalization of marijuana" is a popular persuasive topic that could be taken from any number of perspectives: Full, open use of marijuana, legalization but only for medicinal purposes (to prevent seizures & nausea), legalization for the benefit to Iowa farming economy, keep marijuana classified as a schedule 1 drug, marijuana is a gateway drug and should remain illegal, or operating a motor vehicle under the influence of marijuana.

The speech to actuate should reflect careful audience analysis, planning, organization, preparation, research, use of evidence, reasoning, language, and delivery. The speech should not be written out, but should be extemporaneous (conversational and natural with little reliance on notes).

Instructions:

1) Include in oral footnotes, a minimum of five sources, preferably from at least three different types of materials (book, magazine, interview, internet, etc.). Note: Wikipedia is NOT a quality source. Please use the library databases.

2) Include at least three kinds of supporting materials: definition, description, statistics, etc.

3) Create a formal outline and works cited sheet for your presentation. Submit this into the location provided.

4) Include visual aid to enhance the speech. PowerPoint is an option for the visual aid, but it should emphasize visual images, not text. Be sure to cite your source on the PowerPoint slide for the image. Simple visual aids are just as effective as Power point: an object, a map, a graph, etc.

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