RESEARCH & RELEVANCE

Choose one current ethical dilemma and analyze how it should be addressed. Evaluate the arguments in three or more researched sources, draw a conclusion about their positions. Create a 4-6 minute speech with accompanying visuals that  presents a thoughtful, unbiased perspective using a variety of rhetorical strategies. 

• The presentation should include six or more visuals to enhance the speaker's points.

• This is a speech, and by definition, must not only be written, but performed. The performance is part of the grade.

• This speech should be authentic. Humor can definitely be an effective way of developing pathos. That being said, your speech might contain a joke, but it should not be a joke. Choose a topic that you care about and write a speech that is sincere, with a serious goal. Even if you never send a copy of the speech to the intended audience, even if you never deliver the speech to the people that need to hear it, pretend like you are going to. A speech that is not a serious attempt at rhetoric will be considered incomplete.

• This speech should be delivered with the guidelines of respectful, civil discourse in mind. You may share an opinion, but if that opinion attacks or demeans others, it will not be approved.