speaking to persuade

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Speaking to PersuadePart II

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6 steps for persuasive speech prep.

Choosing your topic

Criteria?

Determining your specific purpose

Purposes?

Analyzing your audience

Gathering information

Preparing visual aids

Organizing your speech

Interesting. Not too large a change. Controversial

Belief. Opinion. Behavior

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Preparing visual aids

How will you present the information?

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Readers can get the same data from various visually-oriented representations, but they will experience different rhetorical effects.

Table

Figure

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Table

Use it when your readers are likely to want very precise numbers, and you don’t want to impose on your data a visual image implying the point you want them to support.

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Figure

It is useful when your readers are less interested in precise details than in a general point, and you want to reinforce your point with a strong image.

Line graph

Bar chart

Stacked bar chart

Horizontal bar chart

Centrally divided horizontal bar chart

Pie chart

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Line graph

It gives less exact information but offers a more striking image of a story. It helps readers see trends easily.

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Bar chart

It visually communicate the gist of its point quickly.

It also helps readers to make individual comparisons.

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Stacked bar chart

It divides the bar into its relative proportions of 100 percent of some other variable.

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Horizontal bar chart

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Centrally divided horizontal bar chart

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Pie chart

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DON’T!!

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DON’T!!

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Organizing your speech

Opener building on areas of agreement

Statement of purpose

Preview of persuasive points.

Body

Summary

Memorable concluding remarks

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Decide Debate Topics

Read all topics listed on the Wikis. Everyone votes for the most promising 4 topics.

Divide into 8 groups (listed on the next page).

Each group will be randomly assigned to one side (pros or cons) of a topic.

Brainstorming ideas. Go back home and do some research.

Bring your data to class next week.

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Group list

#1 Kaitlyn Susan Ling#2 Ines Molly Chen Elsie#3 Jack Ann Zoe#4 Elaine Ginie Jerry#5 Betty Brenda Molly Yeh Christina#6 Vicky Caroline Virginia Sabine#7 Jessica Carlos sherry Winie#8 Josephine Chen Lin Wan wan Steven