Title: “Let the Child Be a Child”
Topic: Child Beauty Pageants
Date of Presentation: 11/06/13
I. Purpose:
What is your thesis for this persuasive speech? Our society as a whole should not support/approve child beauty pageants because doesn’t set a good image for the children, lowers confidence more than increasing and children have no say-so.
What is your specific purpose? To persuade my audience that parents allowing their young children to participate pageants is wrong.
Why is your purpose of acceptable ethical quality? My purpose is of acceptable ethical quality because my goals are ethically sound and it defends young children to not be put in pageants without using name-calling or other forms of abusive language.
Is your purpose a question of fact, value, or policy? My purpose is a question of value because it is a question about worth, rightness and morality. This issue of whether or not a child participating in beauty pageants is right or wrong is a question of value.
II. Audience Analysis:
What do you know about your audience that is relevant to your topic? A few have a child of their own so they can relate this issue to how they protect their own child’s innocence and values. Plus, even the rest who don’t have children are aware of child pageants and most likely have opinions on it.
Will you do any additional analysis to learn or confirm vital information? No, because I believe I already have a good amount about my audience.
III. Organizational Pattern:
Which organizational pattern will work best for your persuasive speech? Organizing my persuasive speech topically would be the best pattern for this speech topic. I’ll start by establishing the standards for my own value judgment and my second main point to applying those to the subject of my speech.
IV. Strategies:
What strategies and reasoning will you use to build a strong persuasive argument? I am going to use the strategy of pathos to get