Should marijuana be legalized in theUnited States?

Please explain your standpoint Create a Thesis Statement that

explains your position.

Make sure that your statement is clear and straight to the point

Who are your listeners?

Should you appeal to the listeners attitudes, beliefs and values?

Should you adapt your message to audience demographics?

Questionnaire--a series of open and closed ended questions.

Closed ended questions—elicit a small range of specific answers

Should marijuana be legalized in the US?

Yes or No

Open ended questions—allows audience members to elaborate as much as they wish.

How do you feel about the legalization of marijuana ?

Each group is required to create a survey for the topic!

Based upon your standpoint/main point, develop 4 questions on marijuana for your audience

Open ended questionsOR

Closed ended questions

Full NamesGreetingAttention Getter(s)Create A ConversationStandpoint/Main Point

ONLY FIVE SENTENCES IN THE INTRODUCTION

Picking A TopicBrainstorm with Partner(s) for Ideas

Narrow your topic to form a specific speechform

Compose a Thesis/StandpointResearch sources that support your

Standpoint

Using Sources From Our Library

http://libguides.hgtc.edu/spc205_graham

Good Persuasive Speeches contain accurate,relevant, and interesting supporting materials

Examples—illustrate, describe, or present things. Their purpose is to aid understanding by making ideas, items, or events more concrete.

Share stories—one of the most powerful means of conveying a message is through a story (also called narrative)

Testimony-is firsthand findings, eyewitness accounts

Lay testimony-or a testimony by nonexperts such as eyewitnesses, can reveal compelling firsthand information that may be unavailable to others.

Provide Facts and Statistics

Most people require some type of evidence

Facts represent documented occurrences, including actual events, dates, times, people and places.

Statistics are qualified evidence that summarizes, compares and predicts things.

Each group is required to have supporting materials that documents at least two facts and or statistics.

****They can be a part of the speech or in your Hand-out

Use Percentages to Express Proportions

A percentage is the qualified portion of a whole

In creating your data from your questionnaire, each group can use percentages to express portions

BooksNewspapersPeriodicalsGovernment Publications

FirstGov.govEncyclopediasAlmanacsBiographical ResourcesOnline Materials

Introduction: In A Professional Manner

State Your Standpoint

Introduce Your Four Questions

Pass-0ut Questionnaires

What will you do with your Data from the

Questionnaires?

Primary Research is original or firsthand research such as interviews and questionnaires.

The questionnaires are a part of your primary research.

The data that you collect should be in the written speech and/or the hand-out.

Use Percentages to Express Proportions

A percentage is the qualified portion of a whole In examining your data from your questionnaire, each group can use percentages to express

portions

Example: In our recent survey that we conducted in this class, we found that 90 percent of you all felt that domestic violence is a cruel act. While the other 10 percent of you all were really unsure about your feelings on domestic violence.

The most likely sources of secondary research include books, newspapers, periodicals, government publications, blogs and reference works such as encyclopedias, almanacs, books of quotations, atlases and individual search engines(Google, Yahoo!, and MSN Search)

In your speech, alert the audience to the source of any ideas not your own:

Speech Excerpt Indicating a paraphrase:As reported in the August 8th, 2005, edition of Newsweek, Executive Chef Jorge of the New York City public schools claimed that until recently, virtually every piece of chicken that was served was breaded or glazed; students

drank whole rather than skim milk, and ate white rather than whole-wheat bread.

Example of a direct quote:

“The nation’s emergency rooms have been stretched thin for at least a decade or more.”

(New York Times Editorial Quotation)

Good afternoon everyone, my name is _______________ andthis is my co-host ______________. Welcome to HGTC News and today’s hot topic is whether or not sexual education should be taught within our schools. In order to explore this topic, howmany of you have children of your own? And let us see ashow of hands from those of you who feel that sex educationshould be taught in our schools? Well, my partner and I arefirm believers that sex education should be taught in theschools because our research shows that it reduces unplannedpregnancies (Stand point).

Full NamesGreetingAttention Getter(s)Create A ConversationStandpoint/Thesis

ONLY FIVE SENTENCES IN THE INTRODUCTION

You can use the informal pronoun… YOU

Create a conversation within your writing

Draw your audience into your speech by using attention getters

You can also draw your audience into your speech by creating vocal variety in your delivery

Interaction with your partner(s)

As a rule, people have more interest and pay more attention to topics toward which they have positive attitudes and that are in keeping with their values and beliefs. The less we know about something, the more indifferent we tend to be. Any speaker seeking a change in attitudes or behavior would do well to remember this!