The Topic: The United States adopts English as its official language.

 Minimum of 5 scholarly sources required (heard within the speech and in your written formal outline and in works cited page)

 Your research must include 1 academic high-quality source from the CPP library portal. Even though journal articles and newspaper articles from CPP library student portal are available to you via the Internet, they are not web sites. You may get all of your sources from the library Internet portal from which you can get newspaper, encyclopedia, professional and academic journal articles 

PERSUASIVE SPEECH ASSIGNMENT

Student Learning Outcomes:

1. Develop a persuasive speech that is original, interesting, ethical, and compelling for various audiences and occasions.

2. Develop a focused speech, having a clear and concise specific purpose (A clearly stated proposition).

3. Develop a detailed, subordinated speech outline that clearly distinguishes between the speech’s specific purpose, main points, subpoints, evidence, and transitions.

4. Structure ideas by using organizational patterns appropriate for the speech’s purpose, audience, and occasion (Problem/Solution or Problem,Cause, Solution for Policy).

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. Present ideas/arguments that are adapted to their audiences.

6. Present ideas/arguments that are supported by strong evidence and sound reasoning.

7. Use language appropriate to the audience and occasion.

8. Deliver a speech extemporaneously (from key word notecards) that exhibits fluency and vocal variety, enthusiasm and sincerity, and effective nonverbal behavior (such as eye contact).

9. Perform basic research skills, including traditional on-site archival research as well as on-line computer-assisted research.

DESCRIPTION

For this speech, you will be providing a 6-8 minute speech/presentation on a topic on which you would like to persuade your audience. Your proposition, your major claim, is your specific purpose statement for this speech. Your persuasive speech goal is to advocate change. While these speeches are more controversial in nature, it is important that all opinions and viewpoints be both presented and heard in a respectful and mature manner. Please format your outline using the Policy outline found at the end of this document.

REQUIREMENTS

1. Time: 6-8 minutes in length. Speech is to NOT exceed 8 minutes 30 seconds.

2. Dress: Business Casual (fit for a professional experience like an interview) to increase ethos.

a. If you do not have attire for the occasions, try to Career Center’s Career Closet.

3. 4 x 6 notecards: You may use note cards.

4. Sources: Minimum of 5 scholarly sources required (heard within the speech and in your written formal outline and in works cited page).

· You may cite in either MLA format.

· Get help if you do not know how to cite in-text or works cited.

a. You need minimum of 2 types of research materials.

· If you cite 5 web sites, you will not meet the assignment requirement.

· Your research must include 1 academic high quality source from the library portal. Even though journal articles and newspaper articles from CPP library student portal are availed to you via the Internet, they are not web sites. You may get all of your sources from the library Internet portal from which you can get newspaper, encyclopedia, professional and academic journal articles. You may like CQ Researcher which gives both sides of issues.

5. Rebuttal- Pre-empt the other side’s rebuttal to one of your points. Address the rebuttal and invalidate it.

6. Formal Outline: You will be required to turn in a full-sentence outline complete with works cited page. All of your sources should be in the text and listed alphabetically in the works cited page.

7. Delivery Order: Pre-Determined.

8. Delivery: I expect each student to practice their speech several times. Give an enthusiastic, polished delivery. The CLO Course Learning Objective is extemporaneous delivery.

9. Speech evaluation: As an audience member, you will also be required to evaluate fellow classmate’s speeches to identify the strengths and weaknesses of logos and pathos.

SPECIFIC PURPOSE STATEMENT

Claim: You will need to state your proposition. It is your specific purpose statement.

1. Policy: Claim that a rule/regulation or policy should be adopted, changed, or stopped.

OUTLINE ORGANIZATION

Organizational Patterns: You may choose one of these different types of organizational patterns to present your information. Please use the one that will allow your information to “flow” best.

1. Problem/Solution: With this, you organize your speech points to demonstrate the nature and significance of a problem and then provide justification for a proposed solution.

Blood Donation

Main Points: Problem: lack of blood available to patients in need.

Solution: Go out and donate blood.

2. Problem/Cause/Solution: With this, you organize your speech points to demonstrate the nature and significance of a problem. In addition, you also identify the cause(s) of that problem and provide justification for a proposed solution.

Air Pollution

Main Points: Problem: Too much air pollution. Cause: Automobiles. Solution: Ride a bike.

Policy Proposition Outline

For your persuasive speech, please refer to this outline to guide you on all parts that need to be included. Please format and label your outlines according to this worksheet, type out in 12 point font and make sure to write in full sentences. Your outline should represent every word you plan to say in your speech.

Name

Title of Your Speech

General Purpose:

INTRODUCTION (All capital letters)

I. Attention Getter: This represents the first words out of your mouth! So make sure it GRABS the audience in. Make sure it is relevant/appropriate to your topic. Some devices you can use for the attention getter are:

Joke/Humor (Make sure it is appropriate/in good taste!)

Narrative/Story (Be brief)

Shocking Statement

Fact/Statistic

Poem

Quote

Question

Visual Aid/Activity

II. Specific Purpose Statement: Clearly state your policy proposition here. Today I will persuade you that the United States should….

III. Identification of Opposition Statement (Fair Hearing): This statement should call attention to those arguments that audience members may have against your position/topic. It should basically call the audience members to give you a “fair hearing.”

IV. Significance: This statement should let the audience know why it is relevant to the audience. If possible use a source here.

V. Credibility: If you have a particular credibility with a topic (i.e. if you have diabetes and your speech is on diabetes) then reveal this in a credibility statement. This will help create trust between you and your audience and demonstrate that you know what you are discussing.

VI. Preview Statement: This statement should reveal ALL of your main point. Give a clear picture of what is to come in your speech. Be sure to use parallel words (i.e. first, second, third) to be simple and concise and allow the audience to hear how many points they will hear within your speech.

MAJOR TRANSITION: Transition into first main point (I), which explains the current situation (status quo) is a problem.

BODY (All capital letters)

I. Main Point: First main point.

A. Define the problem:

B. Scope of the problem (Who is affected? How many people? Where ?)

C. Harms of the problem:

1. Economic (cost to society, individuals, etc.)

2. Environmental (conservation, safety, aesthetics, etc….)

3. Societal (justice, freedom, equality)

4. Psychological (pain and suffering, depression, rage, guilt, ..)

5. Physiological (death, illness, injury…)

Only include 1-5 if they cause harm to people or a value.

Minor Transition: This sentence is a transition from the problem to the causes of the problem.

II. Main Point: Second main point states the causes of the problem. Causes of the problem may be due to societies’ attitudes or structural which means that the harm is built into our society through laws or norms.

A. First factor contributing to the problem.

B. Second factor contributing to the problem.

C. If you need a sub point for another reason.

Minor Transition: This sentence transitions into the third main point (III), the solution.

III. Main Point: I propose a solution.

A. Policy changes needed to solve the problem (if any). This may mean that laws that need to change.

1. Sub more information here

2. Sub point

B. Personal Action change needed by the audience to solve the problem (if any).

C. Attitude or belief changes to solve the problem (if any).

MAJOR TRANSITION: This sentence should move the audience from your body into your conclusion.

CONCLUSION (All capital letters)

I. Review of main points: This statement should reiterate your points again to summarize what your audience learned about in your speech. Make sure to include all points.

II. Lasting thought: (Make sure you are giving your audience a CLEAR, SIMPLE and ACTIONABLE direction that they can immediately follow through with your solution).

III. A final call to action.

Works Cited page

Cite your sources in MLA 8 format. Make sure that they are alphabetized by author’s last name. If there is no author, alphabetize by “article title.”

For every article that you list in your works cited page, it should also be in the outline.

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ByCPP Student, Rosalinda Barcellona

The United States should rejoin The Paris Agreement

INTRODUCTION

I. Attention Getter: Do you want your future children to suffer from our inability to

take care of our environment? According to the United Nations Framework

Convention on Climate Change (unfccc), the Paris Agreement is a pact made by

countries within this convention to fight against climate change through investments

in sustainability and certain requirements such as a global cap on carbon emissions.

Our country, the United States was one of the countries that signed on until President

Trump withdrew us.

II. Specific Purpose Statement: Today I will persuade you that President Trump should

rejoin the Paris Agreement.

III. Identification of Opposition Statement (Fair Hearing): Some of you may argue

that the Paris Agreement is a waste of America’s money, but the effects of Global

Warming are becoming increasingly more life threatening, and if America officially

rejected the agreement, then the economy of other countries would be damaged.

IV. Significance: This issue applies to everyone around the world. If we ignore the

effects of Climate Change, then our home will continue to become less and less

inhabitable.

V. Credibility: I am extremely passionate about Global Climate Change and the efforts

to reduce its harmful effects and I have participated in a program that taught me the

many ways Global Warming has become an issue. I have also done extensive

research on the consequences that will rise from the withdrawal from the agreement.

VI. Preview Statement: Today we will look at the potential problems that our

withdrawal will cause. Then I will propose a solution.

MAJOR TRANSITION: First, let me explain the problems created by the United States’ lack

of participation in the effort to fight against Climate Change.

BODY

I. Main Point: A withdraw will inevitably reduce the United States’ efforts to remain an

environmentally sustainable country.

A. Environmental issues

1. The reason this is such an important issue is because of the dangers of our
unsustainable habits as a country.

a. These habits include burning fossil fuels, deforestation, inefficient
waste management, and overproduction of non-biodegradable

products.

b. The continuous burning of fossil fuels emits a variety of greenhouse
gases. These gases make their way to the Earth’s atmosphere where

they act as a “blanket” around the Earth because of their heat retaining

properties.

ii. One of the greenhouse gases, CO2, which is the
primary focus of the Paris Agreement, is recycled by

nature through the ability of plants to absorb it.

a) You may be thinking, “well that’s good because we
have a lot of trees,” but this is no longer the case due to

mass deforestation for products such as palm oil,

rubber, and crop land. Instead of the CO2 being

absorbed by the plants, it is added to the blanket.

B. How this affects each one of us personally.

1. This blanket not only increases the Earth’s temperature, but it also has
detrimental effects to the air we breathe.

a. We can see this result in China, where civilians are unable to
leave their house due to the dangerous air quality.

2. Bad air quality also affects the ocean, which is a primary source of our
oxygen and the main absorber of greenhouse gases. However, according to

seethesea.org, the ocean is unable to produce as much oxygen due to the

overproduction of carbon dioxide. This means there is an imbalance.

a. As you all can see, the United States must follow the aspects of
the Paris Agreement in order to reduce these destructive

outcomes.

Minor Transition: Not only does the Paris Agreement aid the world environmentally, but it also

helps the world economically.

C.America’s withdraw will adversely affect other countries who are within the Paris

Agreement.

1. Mitigation/Building Support: One of the many parts of the agreement is
mitigation. In this case, mitigation is when the countries come together to

decrease the severity of climate change.

a. As stated by the World Bank Group, America, China, and India
have agreed to steadily reduce carbon emissions.

2. Another significant way the countries are working together through this
agreement is by the goodwill of developed countries helping developing

countries build a sustainable future.

a. One may argue that our country should not spend more money

on another country, but the investment in a renewable world is

most definitely worth the extra aid given.

Minor Transition: Our retracting from the Paris Agreement affects the Global Economy.

D. The global economy will also be extremely affected by this probable withdrawal.
As emphasized by the Advances in Climate Change Research journal in the

ScienceDirect database, the main issue is with China.

1. If the US pulls out of the deal, then China will have less “emission space.”
This means that because the US will no longer follow a limit to the

amount of carbon produced, China will have to compensate for this extra

carbon and further reduce its emissions.

a. This means the mitigation costs for China will increase

exponentially.

b. China is a leading country in exporting goods, so this extra costs

for China will lead to unfavorable (to say the least) effects in

the entire world’s economy.

MAJOR TRANSITION: I have explained at many problems linked to our withdrawal. Now

let’s look at what needs to be done.

II. Main point: A sustainable future will only be possible if America rejoins the Paris

Agreement.

A. In order to meet our commitments to the agreement, our states can work together
with the EPA, the Environmental Protection Agency to allow the U.S. economic

growth with our pulse on sustainability. Our nation, its citizens, and all the

countries in The Paris Agreement stand to benefit from us rejoining.

CONCLUSION:

I. Review of Main Points: This is because it ensures that each country is doing its part

to combat the change in conditions to the weather and environment. In the end, these issues are

going to affect our future families not only environmentally, but also economically.

II. Call to Action: To urge our President, Donald Trump to rejoin the agreement, sign

the petition to support the Paris Agreement at moveon.org. According to KTHV, 338,000 people

have already signed it.

III. Lasting Thought: It is not too late to make a change. As stated by Mark Cooper in

a journal from the Greenfile database, an official withdrawal cannot occur for another three

years. This means that we still have a chance to convince President Trump and the government

to continue on in the Paris Agreement alongside other countries that are willing to change their

behaviors for a chance at a future.

Works Cited

“Atmospheric Changes and Air Pollution.” Invasive Species, see-the-

sea.org/topics/pollution/air/AirPol-body.htm.

Breeding, Brittany, and KTHV. “Over 338,000 Sign Petition Supporting Paris Agreement That

Will Be Delivered to President Trump.” KTHV, KTHV, 2 June 2017,

www.thv11.com/article/news/local/over-338000-sign-petition-supporting-paris-

agreement-that-will-be-delivered-to-president-trump/445263693

Cooper, Mark. “Governing the Global Climate Commons: The Political Economy of State and

Local Action, after the U.S. Flip-Flop on the Paris Agreement.” Energy Policy,

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2018.03.037.

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Mani, Muthukumara; Hussein, Zekarias; Narayanan, Badri; Wadhwa, Gopalakrishnan Deepika;

and World Bank Group. “Paris Climate Agreement and the Global Economy: Winners

and Losers.” World Bank Group, April 2018,

https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/29604/WPS8392 ?sequence=1

&isAllowed=y.

Potenza, Alessandra. “The US Is Now the Only Country in the World to Reject the Paris Climate

Deal.” The Verge, The Verge, 7 Nov. 2017,

www.theverge.com/2017/11/7/16617594/syria-paris-climate-change-agreement-donald-

trump-nicaragua.

“U.S. Withdrawal from the Paris Agreement: Reasons, Impacts, and China’s Response.”

NeuroImage, Academic Press, 27 Sept. 2017,

www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674927817301028.

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agreement/what-is-the-paris-agreement.

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