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Written Discussion: Developing Your Persuasive Speech Purpose…
Written Discussion: Developing Your Persuasive Speech Purpose Statement
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Once you’ve reviewed Chapter 6: Finding a Purpose and Selecting a Topic, you’ll want to take time to carefully study the following document: Persuasive Speech Assignment revised fall 2021.docx
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We’ll be focusing on it throughout the rest of the semester. Make sure you understand what you’ll need to accomplish with this major assignment.
You will then want to choose your topic– one value– from this extensive list: Lesson 7 Persuasive Values Speech Topics- revised2.docx
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Again, you need to choose just 1 value from this fairly exhaustive list. Some of the topics/values are rather broad. Feel comfortable narrowing your topic to fit your personal knowledge and interests of your audience.
Spend time thinking about this. What value do you relate to? Do you have some experience with the value you’ve chosen and are you curious to learn more? You’ll also want to be thinking about your audience. How might they relate to the value you’ve chosen? You definitely don’t want to rush this part of the planning stage as you will need to “live” with this decision for the rest of the semester.
When you’ve chosen your topic/value (and narrowed it to your liking) use the follow prompts to develop a paragraph and post it in Discussion Forum:
Your choice of topic/value from the provided list (above)
A specific persuasive purpose statement (review section 6.4 of the e-text)
An explanation of your connection to the topic. You want to describe your relationship with the value. Why do you believe you have the credibility (Ethos) to speak with us about this value? In other words, how do you envision showing character, competence, caring, and charisma?
Comment on why you believe your audience will be open to a speech on this particular value. Contemplate and comment on your classmates’ (your audience’s) psychographics (Section 5.1 of your text).
Finally, plan to respond to at least 3 of your peers about their specific purpose statements and stay open to suggestions they make about yours.
Persuasive “Values” Speech- The goal of this extemporaneous speech is to
convince your audience that something is good, desirable, fair, moral, important,
or beneficial. You will choose a topic or “value” from a provided list and urge
your audience to change their perspective and/or behavior by using logical,
emotional, and personal appeals. Your choice of topic (or value) ought to make a
direct impact on the lives of your audience. In order to develop a compelling
argument, you will need to combine personal experiences with credible resources
in a well-organized, formal outline. Deliver your speech extemporaneously using
notecards.
Bottom line: The purpose of your speech is to get your audience to believe what
you believe. Another way to look at it would be that you want your audience to
change their minds about an important value or belief that matters to you AND
your audience. A minimum of 3 quality web resources are required. Stand in front
of your camera and use notecards to help keep you organized, but do not read
your speech! (Review the evaluation rubric in Canvas.) Late submissions may lose
pts.
Extemporaneous Presentation – Prepared and practiced, using no more than six
note cards.
6 – 8 minutes
100 pts.
