Persuasive Outline

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Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman
Session: 2013/01 UJMC2043 Public Speaking

Assignment 2: Speech Outline (Individual)

Name: Seng Kah Hoe
Student I.D.: 08UJB06452
Tutorial Group: T4
Lecturer’s Name: Mr. Edwin Soo Kim Seng
Tutor’s Name: Ms. Khor Gee Khing

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Grading Criteria:

|No. |Item |Marks |Remark |
|1. |Introduction | |
| |Title |3 | |
| |Attention statement | | |
| |Purpose statement | | |
|2. |Body | |
| |3 main ideas |9 | |
| |3 supporting details | | |
| |3 examples | | |
|3. |Conclusion | |
| |Summary statement |2 | |
| |Reinforcement of thesis | | |
|4. |Others | |
| |Transitions |8 | |
| |Mechanics | | |
| |Bibliography | | |
| |Organisation of ideas | | |
|5. |Language |5 |See band descriptors below |
| |Total (27m) |27 | |
| |Total Percentage (27/27 x 10%) |10 | |
| |Overall Comments: | | |
|Mark |Description of criteria |
|5 |Few mistakes, meaning is clearly expressed, sentence structures and vocabulary are varied and used appropriately |
|4 |Some minor mistakes, language is almost always accurate to convey intended meaning, some variation in the use of |
| |sentence structures and vocabulary |
|3 |Language is largely accurate but mistakes are evident, especially complex structures, vocabulary is adequate but not|
| |sufficiently developed |
|2 |Meaning is fairly clear but with high incidence of errors in most aspects, sentence structures and vocabulary are |
| |limited and inadequate |
|1 |Mostly serious errors which hamper reading, meaning not clear, hardly any accurate sentences |

Format of Speech Outline

|Title: Gaming helps reducing stress and can benefit you |
|Introduction |
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|Attention Statement: As a student, it is common that we all have a lot of stresses. |
|Maintaining a high CGPA, assignments, examinations, house works |
|and money. What do you do to release your stress? Some would |
|say go for a movie, some said karaoke, some said watch television |
|or listen to soothing music. Some even suggested going to |
|somewhere peaceful and quiet or sleep. For me, I choose gaming. I |
|bet many of you would doubt that this can actually help. Let me tell |
|you how it works. |
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|Purpose Statement: To persuade that playing games can actually help reducing stress if |
|handled correctly. |
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|Transition: Let me start off by telling you how playing video games can help relieving |
|your stress. |
|Body |
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|Main Idea 1: When it comes to video games, everyone would normally only tell you that |
|it is a bad thing because the more you play it, the more addicted you |
|will get and it will eventually make you feel more tired. However if |
|properly managed, it actually can really help relieving stress. |
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|Supporting Idea: Study shows that if we chose to play serene and peaceful game, it can |
|help us find the inner peace and harmony. |
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|Example: “Leela” a game conducted in Sanskrit. It is defined as “play” in the language. |
|The game aims at teaching players in achieving a peaceful and harmonious |
|state by using the ancient methods of “chakra”. This “chakra” is used to define |
|an energy source that leads to an individual’s inner peace. (J. Gaudiosi (2011) |
|CNN, Deepak Chopra: How video games and tech can reduce stress) |
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|Transition: Next, I will brief you about doing it in the right way. |
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|Main Idea 2: Often think wisely before you picked on a game to play. Play those that not |
|only brings you a maximum level of joy, but also benefits. |
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|Supporting Idea: Many games available in the market these days only require players |
|literally only control their character, shoot or stab and kill opponents |
|just for surviving and achieving victory. Games like this actually |
|doesn’t bring you any good. It will only temporarily give you |
|satisfaction and then when you are starting the next round of |
|the game, where everything need to start all over again would only |
|make you feel fatigue and lifeless. In the end, you will never gain |
|happiness from playing games like this when you’re stressed up, it only |
|burdens you more and make your feelings worsen. |
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|Example: Counter Strike. The game is famous for its outstanding graphics. However, its |
|gameplay actually only focuses on a team of players controlling the either sides |
|of police and terrorists going against each other. Eliminating the opposing team |
|just to win the game’s round. The game does help one develop teamwork skills |
|but other than that, the game has nothing great that the players can learn from. |
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|Transition: Last but not least, you might gain some benefits from playing video games as |
|well apart from the ability to relieving your stress. |
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|Main Idea 3: When you play a video game, you are often made to think how and what |
|you are supposed to do to solve the quest and move on to the next round. |
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|Supporting Idea: Research shown that through video games, players would be given |
|obstacles and puzzles. In order to succeed it, they would need a |
|strategy. Hence through this, it actually helps developing the player’s |
|critical thinking and problem solving skills. (Ivywise Blog (2012) (as |
|cited in Dr. J. McGonigal, Reality is Broken) |
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|Example: Wood Block, a mobile phone game. The game offers users different patterns of |
|woods blocking each other in a compact space. The goal of the game is that |
|players would need to make a way for a piece of tiny wood to pass through in |
|order to get to the next level. This actually helps the players to develop a better |
|critical thinking and problem solving skills as they work their brains more, |
|they would be more curious about how they could work out on a better |
|strategy. |
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|Transition: With that being said, we are coming into a conclusion. |
|Conclusion |
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|Summary Statement: As you are now told, we cannot look at video games only at its |
|negative sides. It can help relieving a person’s stress if the method is right and |
|it can also bring you benefits. |
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|Reinforcement of Thesis: I am not giving everyone the wrong perception of you should |
|play video games whenever you want to relieve your stress |
|though. However, if video games can not only provide you the |
|fun you need while you might also get benefits from it instead, |
|why not give it a try? Try it to release your stress. Remember, |
|play smart not play hard. |
|References: |
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|J. Guloisi, (2011). CNN. Deepak Chopra: How video games and tech can reduce stress. Retrieved from |
|http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/gaming.gadgets/07/28/deepak.chopra.leela/index.html |
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|Ivywise Blog, (2012) (as cited in Dr. J. McGonigal, Reality is Broken). Retrieved from |
|http://blog.ivywise.com/blog-0/bid/138115/Video-Games-Can-Make-You-Smarter |

References: | | | | | | | |J. Guloisi, (2011). CNN. Deepak Chopra: How video games and tech can reduce stress. Retrieved from | |http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/gaming.gadgets/07/28/deepak.chopra.leela/index.html | | | |Ivywise Blog, (2012) (as cited in Dr. J. McGonigal, Reality is Broken). Retrieved from | |http://blog.ivywise.com/blog-0/bid/138115/Video-Games-Can-Make-You-Smarter |