Overview: As a team you will create a new policy, or service and present a credible and convincing argument (PowerPoint) in support of your innovation. Please consider issues that you and your team care about or that have been discussed in the mass media recently. It is important to present various perspectives or points of view. Please use your research to justify your position and promote the importance of your policy or service. Do not try to do everything, think about what your team can achieve within the specified time. This is your opportunity to create the changes you believe are necessary to make your community, your state, your institutions, or your world a better place.

Please work with your Unit 3 Team to complete this project.

 Quality: The quality of your work should reflect your commitment to excellence. Please start planning with your peers and manage your schedules, personalities, preferred modes of communication and meeting times. Poor or plagiarized assignments will be rewarded accordingly. This assignment is not about your individual excellence, it is about your ability to work with others to achieve a challenging goal.

 Steps to Success:

 Choose a Team Topic: Please work with your Unit 3 Team to create a new service or new policy to address a current social problem.

Together you will create a persuasive message to move your audience to act. Think about current social problems and brainstorm with your peers. Think about issues that you care about. Listen to your peers and be willing to compromise. Explore new or unfamiliar ideas.

Select a topic, write a specific purpose, and collect your research. Please post you topic and specific purpose to the Unit 3 Discussion Board for feedback.

 Example Topic: Recycling

 New Service: Residential Fabric Recycling: A service to collect and recycle your old clothing, towels and other fabric products. You get paid when we recycle.

 Specific Purpose: After listening to our speech, the audience will support Residential Fabric Recycling and buy our products at RFR.com

 New Policy: Reuse and Renew: A 10% annual federal tax deduction for buying recycled clothing.

 Specific Purpose: After listening to our speech, the audience will support, The Reuse and Renew Act, by signing our online petition at Change.org

SPEECH 3

 Research: To achieve your persuasive goals, you will conduct research. Each member of your team will collect at least 3 primary academic sources related to your topic. Secondary sources or tertiary sources can be used after you have satisfied the primary source requirement. Your research should provide evidence to clarify the value of your policy or service.

 PowerPoint: Now, please create a PowerPoint and pitch your ideas to the class on the Unit 3 Discussion Board. Read and pay attention to the feedback. Discuss suggestions with and make changes after Discussion Board post.

 During the feedback process on eCampus, please assign a team member to document new and interesting insight from your instructor and peers. Improve your PowerPoint. This is your opportunity to learn from others in improve your project.

 Please use your visual aid (PowerPoint) to reveal a persuasive, compelling and visually appealing marketing strategy for your policy or service. Think about how we can access your service or show support for your policy. Be creative, use ethos, pathos and logos effectively. Use charts and graphs to demonstrate numbers, percentages, frequency and other compelling numbers found in your research. Please use your text to review important visual aid concepts. Your team should invent a name for the polices or services. You should also include compelling visuals with in-text citations and conclude with a strong call to action to tell the audience how to support your policy, or service. If you are working on a policy please remember to include petitions, or contact information to help your audience complete the action(s) that will demonstrate their support for your policy.

Unit 3 Discussion Board 100 Points

Please post your answer to the prompt below. Your first paragraph should be 5-8 sentences long to receive credit for your post. Remember to bold key concepts from your textbook.

Instructions/Prompt:

Discussion Board 3 Sample Please read Chapters 9, 10 and 14 before you attempt this assignment, and complete your PowerPoint for Speech 3. Please post your answer to the prompt below. The first paragraph should be 5 – 8 sentences long to receive credit for your post. The second part of your post should include your speech 3 topic, specific purpose statement and research in APA format, along with your PowerPoint for peer feedback. An outline is not required for this project. Please see the example below. Remember to bold key concepts from your text. Please review the sample before you attempt this project and post before 11:59pm on or before the due date. Please list and describe 4 advantages of group problem solving. How has your team utilized these advantages for your project? What challenges did your team encounter? How did you overcome these challenges?

Paragraph 1

Teamwork

Sample Discussion Board 2 100 Points

Groups are challenging, but there are several advantages of working as a team to accomplish a shared goal. Resources, diversity, accuracy, and commitment are four advantages of working in teams. At times physical strength or intellectual skills provide access to resources that an individual would not have access to making the team stronger than individual parts. Additionally, diverse perspectives provided by different ways of problem-solving and experiences will help the team to be stronger. When working as a team I often benefit from my parents’ experience in the world of work and can learn how to navigate my college experience, they also learn new skills from me related to technology and collectively we are able to do more together than as individuals.
Commitment to our family unit also helps us to continue to participate actively in family activities and makes us a strong team. I used those skills to work effectively with my unit 3 team and we have been very effective. Finally, accuracy was greatly improved, when one person provided important feedback to help team to avoid plagiarism errors. While the project was well done, one error of a missing reference slide almost cost us to have a terrible grade. The commitment of the team to work collaboratively to problem-solve and invite diverse perspectives allowed us to earn a great grade and overcome challenges of time management, different ages groups, work and school schedules.

Paragraph 2: Speech 3 Topic, Research, Specific Purpose, PowerPoint and feedback

Speech 3 Topic: The Sustenance Act

Speech 3 Research:
References
Lee, J. (2015). It’s Time to Rethink Restaurant Food Waste. Triple Pundit.
Lewis, K., & Braun, A. (2016). This Apple Could Have Been Saved. Scholastic Scope, 65(2), 12.
Murray, J. (2017, July 03). Learn About Corporate Tax Rates and How to Calculate What You Owe. Retrieved July 31, 2017, from https://www.thebalance.com/corporate-tax-rates-and-tax-calculation-397647
Simon, B. (2015). No Time To Waste. US News & World Report.
United States, Environmental Protection Agency. (2017). Food Donation.

Speech 3 Specific Purpose: After listening to our speech, the audience will support, The Sustenance Act, by signing our online petition, visiting restaurants that implement this policy, and patronizing restaurants that are verified providers of donated products.
Speech 3
PowerPoint
: Please click the link to review the PowerPoint and provide peer feedback 2 of your classmates.

Sample Peer Feedback 1 Jane your PowerPoint looks wonderful, please edit your work to correct the spelling and reduce some of the text on your PowerPoint slides. Please consider using charts and graphs to show your statistics. This will make your ideas more appealing to the audience. I have included a link to YouTube to help your team improve the visual. Finally, please make the font on your slides bigger, it will make your work more visually appealing. Congratulations! Great work.
Sample Peer Feedback 2: Gail, amazing teamwork! Your team has such an exciting policy. Please remember to include a slide with a call to action. This will help the audience to understand how they can support your policy idea. This is so wonderful; you should share this exciting new idea with your state representative. Fantastic work team!

DAMAGED-FREE BOOK ACT

PROPOSING…

Cuong Tran, Crawford Box, Zalaiyah Crawford

Professor Spence

SPCH 1311

13 April 2020

REDUCING COLLEGE COST IN THE U.S.

HOW MUCH DO YOU SPEND ON TEXTBOOKS FOR COLLEGE?

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DID YOU KNOW?
It has been reported that by 2014 the average student spent $1,200 annually on textbooks.

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WHAT IS THE PROBLEM?
Textbooks are expensive
Can be a roadblock students
It takes longer time to pay off the college loan.

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STUDENT UTILISTATION

Many students find that they do not even use the book after purchasing it.
– Therefore, it leads to the problem that “not all students purchase the required text for a class”( Silver, 2012).
– A National Association of College Stores survey found that only 43% of students bought the required books for their courses (Carlson, 2005).

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OVERPRICED BOOK

Editors revise the book every 3-4 years to make student to buy new ones with minor changes.

Package book with extra code makes it impossible to sell back.

Another study claimed that between 2006 and 2016 the costs of college textbooks increased over four times the cost of inflation (Costello, 2019).

INCOME PROBLEM

Family doesn’t have enough money to buy the books
According to Student Government Resource Center, 14% of students report they occasionally or frequently drop a course because the textbook cost is too high.

ALREADY EXISTING SOLUTIONS

e-textbooks (Gottschlich, 2008)
Open textbooks
Used books
Rental programs
Library reserves

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OUR SOLUTION

Lending textbook for free

If return damaged or late will be charged

The charge depends on the damage level or how late it is

OUR SOLUTION

Textbook required for class will be returned at the end of each semester.

Other types of books lend for maximum 2 months.

OUR SOLUTION
Damage level:
Any mark on pages: 10-50% of book price.
Worn but not torn: 30-50% of book price.
Ripped/ torn/ missing pages: 80-100% of the book price.

– Late return:
5% of the book price every day after the due date.
100% for a month late after due date.

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OUR SOLUTION

Financial Incentives for Colleges who fund this program provides by legislators

Using our tax dollars to improve the future of American Society.

More Equitable than existing options

Precedent For Congressional Help.

We believe that our Idea to go to Congress isn’t a moonshot. There is clear precedent for textbook reform.

A USA Today article from 2006 says, “Concerns over spiraling college textbook prices have prompted state legislators to introduce more than 40 bills and resolutions in 15 states this year. (Marklien, 2006)

So it’s a topic that’s been open for debate for quite some while also not too long ago.

POSSIBLE CHALLENGES
-“At community colleges, textbook costs represent about 72 percent of overall tuition and fees” (Devarics, 2007).
Much of that goes to pay for things the school needs like paying payroll.
– Textbook companies have been trying for years to eliminate the used textbook business by bundling in one-time codes that render the actual textbook worthless.  So not every book would be available.

OVERCOMING CHALLENGES

We hope that legislature can be passed to help fund this project.

We could call our Congressperson and let them know.

Local Representatives include Rep. Lance Gooden and Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D). An educated congressional district will pay dividends in job creation, taxes, and less crime. 

SUPPORT
Please ask your congressional representative to support this initiative.
We can do this together!
America needs you!
Please sign our petition at DAMAGEDFREEBOOKACT.org

REFERENCES
Bartlett, T. (2005). Report Blames Add-Ons for Rise in Textbook Prices. Chronicle of Higher Education. 
Costello, E., Bolger, R., Soverino, T., & Brown, M. (2019). Determining Textbook Cost, Formats, and Licensing with Google Books API: A Case Study from an Open Textbook Project. Information Technology & Libraries, 38(1), 91–99. https://doi-org.dcccd.idm.oclc.org/10.6017/ital.v38i1.10738
Devarics, C. (2007). College Textbook Prices Focus of Congressional Advisory Committee Hearing. Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. 
Marklein , M. B. (2006). Costly textbooks get a closer look . USA Today.
Silver, L., Stevens, R., & Clow, K. (2012). Marketing Professors’ Perspectives on the Cost of College Textbooks: A Pilot Study. Journal of Education for Business, 87(1), 1–6. https://doi-org.dcccd.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/08832323.2010.542503
Zhou, D. (2005). College textbook prices are unfair and unnecessary. Christian Science Monitor.