Assignment
Planning your persuasive speech
Write the topic you have selected:
Identify the public audience related to this topic. What kind of conversation is/has been occurring?
How will you help your literal audience identify as part of the public audience named above? How will you make the persuasive speech relevant and interesting to the people in the room?
After completing background research on this topic, what is a problem andsolution you could talk about?
What action do you want the audience to take?
Why do you want them to take this action?
What do the audience members need to know to convince themselves to take this action? What kind of information do you need to present?