Persuasive speech

The persuasive speech/ pitch assignment will provide you with the opportunity to demonstrate your ability to craft effective arguments, address counter arguments, and provide credible evidence to support your points. You will research, organize, and prepare a 7-8 minute persuasive speech or pitch on a topic or idea of your choice. It is around 4-5 pages.

This speech is an opportunity to be as creative, innovative, or passionate as you want, but the topic must be academically rigorous and/ or relevant in either or social, political, or cultural sphere that involves the creation of, elimination of, or maintenance of a policy. Use the “Persuasive Speech Questionnaire” to help you.

The topic is whether it is necessary to ban children under 18 from playing violent video games.

Your specific purpose statement will include your scenario in three parts: who we (the audience) are, who you are, and the situation/ place where your argument is taking place.

– Example: The audience is made up of city council members, you are a concerned citizen, and you are arguing for a specific policy change.

– Example: The audience is made up of Disney executives, you are an Imagineer, we are at a meeting regarding the future direction of Galaxy’s Edge in Disneyland

Include at least 4 sources as evidence/ research in your speech. When building your reasoned arguments, it is up to you to decide what is most persuasive, but you should rely on some mixture of propositions of fact, propositions of value, and/ or propositions of policy.

In addition, please give me the outline

Speech content/preparation outline: This will be a typed formal outline that follow’s Monroe’s Motivated Sequence. The outline will include:

-Topic, General Purpose Statement, Specific Purpose Statement, Thesis

-introduction/attention step

–3 Main points/ the need, the satisfaction, the visualization (and their support with corresponding citations)

– Conclusion/ the action appeal.