Persuasive Speech Worksheet

Please work on the highlighted parts of this worksheet and bring it to class on Friday, April 25th for participation points.

PERSUASIVE SPEECH PREPARATION WORKSHEET

Name Alexia Higginbotham Section ___________________________________

1. What is the topic of your speech? ______________Eating healthy____________________________________
2. Are you speaking on a question of fact, value, or policy? ______________fact and value__________________
3. What is your specific purpose statement? ______________________We as humans should strive to eat a healthy diet______________________
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5. Is your speech meant to achieve passive agreement or immediate action from your audience?
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6. What is your central idea? Eating healthy is easy and necessary for a good well being________________________________________
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7. Does your central idea have all the main components it needs to have? _Yes______
8. What is the target audience for your speech? How will you adapt your speech to be persuasive to your target audience (or how will you make the speech relevant to your audience? Be specific.
__My target audience is the class that I’m speaking to, but could be for any audience. I will adapt my speech by suggesting good eating habits that are beneficial especially to college students with a busy life.______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
9. What method(s) of gaining attention do you use in the introduction? I plan to tell a story or use a rhetorical question______________________
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10. How do you establish your credibility in the introduction? My mother is a nurse and teaches me healthy eating habits and I will mention I did a lot of research on the subject______________________________
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11. Write the preview statement you will use in your introduction.
I haven’t decided on the exact preview statement, but I will most likely talk about how easy it is to eat badly and some statistics_______________
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12. Does your intro have all what is required? Not yet, still working on it_______________
13. What method of organization do you use in the speech? Linear organization ________________________________
14. State in full sentences the main points to be developed in the body of your speech (For the current assignment you may state very briefly the main points you think you might use).
1) Talk about obesity in the United States and the world
2) Talk about the lifestyle of college students and the difficulties of eating healthy
3) I am going to talk about alternatives and ways to fix bad eating habits _____________________________________________________________________________
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15. Do your main points contain all what they need to contain (developed sub-points, credible evidence, citations, etc. ? ____Not quite yet___________
16. What supporting materials do you use in developing each main point? Be specific.
Supporting materials would be statistics and graphs/charts, Visuals to help get the point across, and lots of examples on how to fix bad eating habits_____________________________________________________________________________
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17. Do you have all the required evidence and is it from a credible source? ____Not quite___________
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What steps have you taken to answer potential objections that your audience may have to your position? Be specific. (optional, you are not required to answer this but it might be benefitial)
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19. What method(s) of reinforcing your central idea do you use in the conclusion?
__I am going to restate all my points and summarize them again to get my ideas across to the audience and so it will stick in their memory___________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________20. Did you review your main points? _Yes______
21. Write down your closing statement I can’t come up with that yet, I’m still knocking around a few
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Lucas, S.E. (2007). Student workbook to accompany the art of public speaking. New York: McGraw-Hill.