Persuasive Speech

Speech 3: Persuasive

5- 7 minutes

Purpose: This speech serves several purposes: 1). The purpose of this speech assignment is for you to choose a topic that is meaningful to public discourse and learn how to effectively persuade or move your audience. 2) This speech should help us to focus on articulation of positions using reason and critical thinking and LISTENING on hard topics.

Persuasive speaking- the process of influencing people’s attitudes, beliefs, values or behaviors in a public speech.

3) Lastly, we will contribute to make a meaningful contribution to public discourse. This time focus the topic around a local issue. Local meaning belonging to a particular area or community. This can be a geographic or social community. It can mean New Orleans, the South, your own hometown, family, people group, etc –any topic that can be rooted in a local concern, something that is near you. If you chose a global or national issue, present through a “local” lens. Remember, we are employing local to mean more than geography! Examples: 1) You might consider talking about global warming. Be sure to connect it to coastal Louisiana and New Orleans? 2) Food health- consider southern obesity, food deserts in New Orleans, etc.

Objective: This speech should be an original effort to not only inform your audience about your position but persuade your target audience “to move” or take action. The speech should be well researched. Take the approach on informative research, but move to formulate a persuasive argument. Clearly state your persuasive topic, credibility statement, and make oral citations. As always, be creative!

Audience: For this speech, aim to record in front of anyone you can find that connects to your local issue. This audience is open to anyone who is capable of processing the information you will be sharing. Most messages and public address is aimed toward the general public. Consider what it means to construct a message for a local. You may have some opinion or “local knowledge” on your topic. Be careful not to assume what people know by speaking jargon for a specific knowledge. Be careful not to assume your audience is ignorant by delivering an overly simplified speech.

The speech should be interesting, well organized, and competently presented with cited sources. The persuasive speech should present appropriate evidence, form an argument, and avoid fallacies while working towards our purpose and objective. Not adhering to the following will results in points being deducted:

· 5-7 minutes

· Speech/outline must follow an appropriate design.

· Speech should reframe from using faulty logic or reasoning.

· Speeches must have a least 3 different research sources. One of theses sources must be scholarly (from a research database). Your information/sources should be either factual statements (statistics, examples definitions), expert opinion, or elaboration (anecdote or narrative). You must have at least two different types of relevant information.

· For clarity- you must have a minimum of 3 sources. One must be scholarly. Of the three sources, 2 may be the same type of information, but to provide diverse evidence, you must have something different.

· Additionally, all types of folks do research. Let’s TRY to get some research from people of color, women, queer, disabled, varying ages, etc in this. This is a best practice suggestion with strong emphasis

· Sources must be orally cited within your speech.

· Outline and bibliography must be turned in.