Make a Preparation Outline(Persuasive Speech)

Hernandez-Ojeda PERSUASIVE SPEECH

PREPARATION OUTLINE- PERSUASIVE SPEECH

Please indicate the following information in your Preparation Outline.

NAME: _______________________________________________________________________

TOPIC: _______________________________________________________________________

AUDIENCE: ____________________________________________________________________

GOALS: _______________________________________________________________________

TYPE OF PROPOSITION (value, facts, policy?): ________________________________________

OUTLINE (Monroe’s Motivated Sequence)-

1. Attention step

· Which attention-grabber device?

· Goals

· Preview

Transition:

2. Need step

· Problem and consequences

· Audience’s role

Transition:

1. Satisfaction step

· Your solutions

Transition:

4. Visualization step

· Visualization

Transition:

5. Action appeal step

· Appeal for action

· What audience should do

· Which concluding-device?

6.

Here is a summary of Monroe’s Motivated Sequence:

1. The attention step

· Get the audience’s attention

· Describe your goals and preview the speech

2. The need step

· Describe the problem as well as the consequences.

· Alert audience members to their role in mitigating the issue.

3. The satisfaction step

· Outline your solutions to the problems (deal with objections )

4. In the visualization step

· Ask audience members to visualize what will happen if solutions are implemented and if they don’t.

5. The action appeal step

· Make a direct appeal for action.

· Describe how the audience should react and how they should carry out these actions.

Source: Stone Watt, S. & Barnett, J. T. (2012). Persuasive speaking. In Public speaking: The virtual text, L. Schreiber (Ed.). Millersville, PA: The Public Speaking Project. Retrieved from http://www.publicspeakingproject.org/persuasive.html