Name: _____________________________

1. Describe your audience below. Are they supportive and ready for action, neutral and unable to commit, or reluctant and opposed to your ideas?

2. What persuasive goal do you have for your speech?

Persuasion Outline Worksheets:
motivated sequence worksheet --  refutation -- problem-solution -- problem-cause-solution -- cause-effect

3. Now, which organizational pattern would work best for you? Here are some worksheets which will serve as GUIDELINES (remember, you can adapt these to meet your own persuasive strategies). Look at each link and write below which pattern you will use.

• If your audience is reluctant, refutative works well. This is also suggested for the audience where everyone seems to know the opposition's side but not yours. You can still use the other organizational patterns, but be careful to adapt well to where they are at now.
  • refutation
    
    
• If your audience is neutral, then spend time focusing upon "informing them" and "personalizing the message!" The organization you choose is open...pick one:
  • refutation
  • problem-solution
  • problem-cause-solution
  • cause-effect
    
    
• If your audience is supportive, show them how to become involved!
• problem-solution
• problem-cause-solution
• cause-effect
• If your audience is ready for action (even a small act!), the best organizational pattern is the
  • motivated sequence

*Answer: What organizational pattern will you use?

 

 

4. How will you establish ethos or credibility?

5. How will you appeal to pathos in your speech?

6. How could you appeal to mythos in your speech?