| Persuasive Speech Oral and Written Research Assignment Due Date: In Class, Monday, April 23rd. This assignment is designed to help you learn how to use supporting materials effectively in your speeches. It provides you with an opportunity to make a relatively simple presentation to your audience. You will orally present this assignment in class. I expect you to practice and not READ US YOUR MINI PERSUASIVE SPEECH. Begin by deciding on a statement, claim, or assertion that would need to be supported before listeners would accept it. Go to the library to research the statement you wish to support. Look for facts and information that support your statement. Facts are verifiable units of information and should come from sources the audience respects. Your information should be relevant to your claim and should represent the most recent facts on the topic. After you have entered your information, find some testimony that supports your statement. You should use expert testimony from a source that is competent to speak on the subject. Next, find an example or narrative that further demonstrates your point. Once you have decided on the facts and figures, testimony, and narrative examples you will use to support your point, you should plan transitions so that your presentation flows smoothly. You should have transitions between the statement and supporting materials, between the different types of supporting materials, and between the supporting materials and the restatement of your original assertion. Prepare these transitions and insert in the appropriate places. You may find all these types of support in one source and that is fine for this research assignment but REMEMBER!! The minimum requirement for your final persuasive speech is FOUR 4 separate sources Follow the format provided below. Please label your assignment as does this example: Assertion/Claim that requires proof/evidence: Suntans are not as "good" for you as they look on you. Transition: Let's examine some of the evidence. Facts/Statistics: According to a 2000 report of the American Cancer Society, prolonged exposure without protection is responsible for about ninety percent of all skin cancers. Transition: Moreover, radiation accelerates the aging process. Testimony: This March 9ths Newsweek article entitled "The Dark Side of the Sun" quotes Dr. John M. Knox, head of Dermatology at the University of Minnesota College of Medicine as saying, "if you do biopsies on the buttocks of healthy people ages 75 to 35, you won't see any differences under the microscope.... Protected skin stays youthful much longer." Transition: Let's look at one person who suffered the effects of overexposure. Example/Narrative: In a 2000 New Republic magazine article called "Fear of Frying" this horror story was told: Jane was a fair?skinned blonde?haired girl who loved the sun as a child and teen?ager. She would sunburn often, but didn't think there would be any effects other than the short term pain from the sunburn. Lying in the sun seemed so healthy and appealing, she didn't dream it could harm her. Now at forty?five, she knows better. She couldn't believe her ears when her doctor said she had skin cancer. She felt that she had taken good care of her body. Now she cannot go out into the sun, even for a few minutes, without using a sunscreen and wearing a hat, a long?sleeved shirt, and long pants. Transition: What does all this mean? Restatement: A suntan may make you look healthy, but it is not healthy. Overexposure to the sun causes cancer and premature aging. Are you willing to take that risk just to look good? Protect your skin, it is the only one you will have! Use your common sense and a quality sunscreen when playing in the sun. A work cited page is required for this assignment as well as for your speech (four source minimum for the speech) Works Cited: "The Dark Side of the Sun," Newsweek, 9 March 2001, p. 67. "Fear of Frying," New Republic, 5 September 2000, p. 4. Checklist for your FINAL PERSUASIVE SPEECH ______ I have selected a claim or assertion that needs to be supported
in order to change, instill, or ______ I have selected facts and figures from a credible, unbiased source of information. ______ I have identified the source(s) of my information by verbally citing them in my speech. ______ I have found testimony to support my claim or assertion. ______I have planned transitions to make my presentation flow smoothly. ______I have prepared a bibliography that contains at least 4 credible
sources of information used to ______ I have planned to verbally cite at least 4 sources of information during my speech delivery. ______ I have labeled these verbally citations in my written outline. ______ I have used a persuasive organizational pattern to develop my
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