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Building on persuasive speaking online class
The document discusses persuasive speaking and the objectives of altering an audience's beliefs, attitudes, opinions, values, and behaviors. When persuading an audience, the speaker takes a standpoint or mental perspective from which they view and evaluate the topic. The speaker's objective is to prompt the audience to change their thinking and potentially take action.
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- 1. When youspeak to persuade, you attempted to reinforce, modify, or change audience members’ beliefs, attitudes, opinions, values, and behaviors. Your objective is to prompt the audience to alter their thinking and possibly take action.
- 2. learning about thedynamics of social relationships between individuals, groups and communities. A socially aware individual values human rights and acknowledges the importance of harmonious social interaction for the developmental progress of human beings. Social awareness spans a wide spectrum, beginning with social skills development in early childhood and encompassing the level of social consciousness that leads to social activism and societal transformation (http://www.wikihow.com/Develop-Social-Awareness).
- 5. In trying topersuade your audience, you are taking a standpoint. Standpoint refers to the mental place from which an individual views, interprets and evaluates the world. An individual takes a “stand” about her or his “ point” of view!
- 6. Should marijuana belegalized in South Carolina? Brainstorm Write down your standpoint Please post your standpoint in the Discussion Area of our class Example: I believe that marijuana should be legalized in South Carolina for medicinal reasons.
- 7. I believethat marijuana should be legalized in South Carolina for medicinal reasons. Medicinal reasons will be the main focus of your speech.
- 8. Who areyour listeners? Should you appeal to the listeners attitudes, beliefs and values? Should you adapt your message to audience demographics?
- 9. Tailoring aspeech to fit your audience begins with audience analysis—getting to know the people you’ll be addressing—their interests, views, and familiarity with your topic. That knowledge allows you to anticipate your listeners’ needs and continues through the presentation of the speech and beyond.
- 11. Speakers canuse audience-research questionnaires to gather useful information about audience demographics and psychographics.
- 12. Once youselect your topic for discussion You are to create 4 questions for your audience members. Your audience remember will respond to your questions. The responses that you collect will be used as your primary data in your speech.
- 13. Questionnaire--a seriesof open and closed ended questions. Closed ended questions—elicit a small range of specific answers Should marijuana be legalized in the South Carolina? Yes or No
- 14. Open endedquestions—allows audience members to elaborate as much as they wish. How do you feel about the legalization of marijuana in South Carolina ? Each group is required to create a survey for the topic!
- 15. Based uponyour standpoint/main point, develop 4 questions on marijuana for your audience ( note: this is just an in class assignment) Open ended questions Closed ended questions
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- 17. Affirmative ActionOrganic Food VS Fast Food Animal Experimentation Danger of Cell Phones Child Labor Community Colleges VS Four Year Colleges Organic Foods/Fast Foods Higher Education Cloning Living Together Before Marriage Voting Rights Acts Racial Profiling Transgender Does Capital Punishment Deter Crime? Domestic Violence Legalizing Drugs Internet/Social Media Gay Marriages/Relationships/Adoptions Guns and Crime Home Schooling US Immigration Policy Interracial Relationships/Marriages Is the Death Penalty Fair? Organ Transplants Policing Police Physician Assisted Suicide Video Games Wars
- 18. Brainstorming AffirmingYour Position Standpoint
- 19. Standpoint refersto the mental place from which an individual views, interprets and evaluates the world. An individual takes a “stand” about her or his “ point” of view!
- 20. Brainstorm Create A Standpoint ReviewPersuasive Speech Criteria Develop An Audience Research Questionnaire Research sources that support your Standpoint
- 21. Using SourcesFrom Our Library http://libguides.hgtc.edu/spc205online_graham_persuasive Good Persuasive Speeches contain accurate, relevant, and interesting supporting materials
- 22. Examples—illustrate, describe,or present things. Their purpose is to aid understanding by making ideas, items, or events more concrete. Share stories—one of the most powerful means of conveying a message is through a story (also called narrative)
- 23. Testimony-is firsthandfindings, eyewitness accounts Lay testimony-or a testimony by non experts such as eyewitnesses, can reveal compelling firsthand information that may be unavailable to others.
- 24. Provide Facts andStatistics Most people require some type of evidence Facts represent documented occurrences, including actual events, dates, times, people and places. Statistics are qualified evidence that summarizes, compares and predicts things.
- 25. You are requiredto have supporting materials that documents at least two facts and or statistics. ****They can be a part of the speech or in your Hand-out
- 26. Use Percentages toExpress Proportions A percentage is the qualified portion of a whole In creating your data from your questionnaire, each group can use percentages to express portions
- 27. Books Newspapers Periodicals Government Publications FirstGov.gov Encyclopedias Almanacs Biographical Resources Online Materials
- 28. What will youdo with your Data from the Surveys?
- 29. Primary Researchis original or firsthand research such as interviews and questionnaires. The questionnaires are a part of your primary research. The data that you collect should be in the written speech and/or the hand-out.
- 30. Use Percentages toExpress Proportions A percentage is the qualified portion of a whole In examining your data from your questionnaire, each group can use percentages to express portions
- 31. Example: Inour recent survey that I conducted in this class, I found that 90 percent of you all felt that domestic violence is a cruel act. While the other 10 percent of you all were really unsure about your feelings on domestic violence.
- 32. The mostlikely sources of secondary research include books, newspapers, periodicals, government publications, blogs and reference works such as encyclopedias, almanacs, books of quotations, atlases and individual search engines(Google, Yahoo!, and MSN Search)
- 33. In your speech,alert the audience to the source of any ideas not your own: Speech Excerpt Indicating a paraphrase: As reported in the August 8th , 2005, edition of Newsweek, Executive Chef Jorge of the New York City public schools claimed that until recently, virtually every piece of chicken that was served was breaded or glazed; students
- 34. drank whole ratherthan skim milk, and ate white rather than whole-wheat bread. Example of a direct quote: “The nation’s emergency rooms have been stretched thin for at least a decade or more.” (New York Times Editorial Quotation)
- 35. You canuse the informal pronoun… YOU Create a conversation within your writing Draw your audience into your speech by using attention getters You can also draw your audience into your speech by creating vocal variety in your delivery
- 36. As a rule,people have more interest and pay more attention to topics toward which they have positive attitudes and that are in keeping with their values and beliefs. The less we know about something, the more indifferent we tend to be. Any speaker seeking a change in attitudes or behavior would do well to remember this!