May 18 - 22 Assignment:

Post date: May 18, 2020 1:21:26 AM

May 18 - 22 Want to change your world?

May 25 - 29 Use the Monroe Motivational Sequence and Persuasive Techniques!

I asked you last week (and we've worked on parts of this during the year) to think of a topic for a speech in which you would

PERSUADE your classmates or others to do something that would benefit others -- not just themselves.

As I read some of your proposed topics last week, I am so impressed at the kind of awareness you have for what your generation's legacy should be!

And I am posting some of the speeches that you chose here on the webpage -- I enjoyed your choices so much!

Check out these Scholarly Definitions of Rhetoric

Plato: [Rhetoric] is the "art of enchanting the soul." (The art of winning the soul by discourse.)

Aristotle: Rhetoric is "the faculty of discovering in any particular case all of the available means of persuasion."

Cicero: "Rhetoric is one great art comprised of five lesser arts: inventio, dispositio, elocutio, memoria, and pronunciatio." Rhetoric is "speech designed to persuade."

Quintilian: "Rhetoric is the art of speaking well" or "...good man speaking well."

You are now tasked with using rhetoric -- all of the diction, language devices, syntax, persuasive language techniques that you have worked on this year -- to harness the power of your language and PERSUADE!

This assignment is in 2 parts --

    • Part 1 is the research and planning -- submit the outline this week for feedback, due May 22

    • Part 2 is the finalizing of your outline and written speech - SUBMIT NEXT WEEK by May 29

During the last 2 weeks, you have been working on persuasive language and persuasive speeches. Now, as your last and possibly most important assignment, you will use everything you have studied about language and rhetoric this year to create a speech that will persuade others to do something for the good of others, not just himself or herself.

Last week you proposed a topic -- some of you may have worked on this topic previously, as we have talked about persuasive language and rhetoric before. Most of your topics were a good starting point - please check my comments in Canvas to see if I had any feedback on your choice of topic.

link to NC LEARNING STANDARDS for this lesson

Assignment for May 18 - May 22

Part 1: Create an outline using the Monroe Motivational Sequence to PERSUADE

USE THIS TEMPLATE - open and make a copy for you.

Use the SAMPLE Monroe Motivational Sequence outline for RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS

Use this DETAILED EXPLANATION of every step of the outline -- the purpose and the psychology behind the method!

Use this VIDEO to help you understand the outline you will use for your speech (and you can find more!)

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READ DIRECTIONS BELOW complete before beginning -- each bullet . . .

In Part 1 (due this week by May 22), you will use the TEMPLATE above to

    • IDENTIFY YOUR TARGET AUDIENCE (what they may or may not know about your topic), occasion, tone, and purpose.

    • compose a WORKING CLAIM / THESIS-- that will be refined as your research and work. Be VERY careful NOT to use a speech that you have found somewhere using the sequence --- your speech must be AUTHENTIC.

    • do INDEPENDENT RESEARCH on your topic (narrowing and refining it if needed) so that you can complete each step of the Monroe Motivational Sequence -- a general pattern used in most persuasion. See my SAMPLE PAGE OF RESEARCH

      • If you go back to your ad analysis, you found this same sequence.

      • If you go back to your analysis of RFK’s speech, you found this same sequence.

    • KEEP WRITTEN DOCUMENTATION of your OWN RESEARCH on a SEPARATE DOCUMENT. This RESEARCH DOCUMENT MUST be available to me (it does not have to be neat or organized - original research never is at first. I am always “grabbing” and copying and pasting information all over a document before I decide what to use!). But if you do not have it when I ask for it, you will NOT receive credit for your outline. This will help guarantee authenticity.

    • Develop a refined CLAIM / POSITION STATEMENT or thesis for your speech for your targeted audience and purpose

    • use my TEMPLATE to COMPLETE A MONROE MOTIVATIONAL SEQUENCE OUTLINE for your topic, in sentence form. (same template as above, just making sure you have it!)

    • give a HYPERLINK / parenthetical citations for any research used in your outline (parentheses with the website page name hyperlinked to the website).

    • analyze each step of and within the sequence and label which APPEAL you are using.

    • label any rhetorical devices and persuasive techniques used in each step to insure that you have a sound argument (label the device/technique in parentheses after it). - uSE YOUR HANDOUT FROM THE PAST 2 WEEKS!

    • EDIT for basic capitalization, spelling, punctuation and sentence structure

    • SUBMIT THE OUTLINE by May 22 so that I can give you feedback before you complete the entire speech next week!

Part 2: THE SPEECH (not due until May 29 - next week -- after using the feedback I give you from this week)

    • After FEEDBACK from me on your outline, you will revise and then create a WRITTEN version of your speech -- just like the text versions of speeches we have studied.

    • You will use required manuscript form (paragraphs, double-spacing, fonts, etc. -- provided after your feedback.

    • You will provide and/or describe a VISUAL that would enhance your persuasion and how you would use it

What you must have at the end of this week:

1. Monroe Motivational Sequence Outline, using the TEMPLATE

-- You will submit this to an assignment box so that I can give you feedback

2. Your RESEARCH PAGES (notes, copy and paste, with URL)

      • You will not submit this until I ask for it