Non-Profit Persuasive Speech



Non-Profit Persuasive Speech

|Prompt: Write and deliver a speech designed to persuade your peers to support your non-profit by donating, volunteering, or other means. Your |

|audience is your classmates, so you should direct your speech to their interests and knowledge. |

Content Requirements:

✓ Include information about your non-profit and relevant background about the issue

✓ Include at least 5 pieces of information from your research.

✓ REMEMBER that this is a persuasive speech, not a report of facts. Use a several persuasive techniques to convince your audience. Honors must use at least five techniques in the speech, which must be bolded.

✓ Document the 5 pieces of information by putting parentheses after the information with the name of the source.

✓ Use a variety of interesting sentence types (Make sure all your sentences don’t start with the same word).

✓ Your essay should be roughly the length of a 5 paragraph essay (2 – 2 ½ pages double spaced). If you need to change the number of body paragraphs to fit your topic, you can. You might have 2 big arguments or several smaller points. However, the overall length needs to remain the same.

Format Requirements:

✓ Include the MLA Header in the upper left corner.

✓ Include a title.

✓ Double Space and use a standard 12 point font.

✓ Include a Works Cited page with all sources that you documented in the speech.

✓ Bring an extra copy of your speech, in a larger font size, for you to have on the podium. (Not optional – I will be taking up your 12 point copy at the beginning of class.)

Full, typed draft due this Friday, May 21st for peer editing. Friday is the only day that you will get credit for a first draft. If you cannot type it, it must be written in final format – see me for details.

You will deliver your speech to the class on May 24th or 25th. Everyone will be turning a copy on Monday, May 24th.

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Citing Your Sources

In the Speech:

In the body of your speech you must cite each fact in parenthetical style. To do this, put in parentheses the first word of the MLA-formatted Works Cited entry (either the author name, article name, or website name).

On the Works Cited Page:

Each speech must have a separate Works Cited page. There, you list all the sources you used in alphabetical order. Below, you will find a list of how to cite different sources if you were not able to pull the MLA Citation information from the SIRS database.

Citing an Entire Web Site

It is necessary to list your date of access because web postings are often updated, and information available on one date may no longer be available later. Be sure to include the complete address for the site.

Remember to use n.p. if no publisher name is available and n.d. if no publishing date is given.

Editor, author, or compiler name (if available). Name of Site. Version number. Name of institution/organization

affiliated with the site (sponsor or publisher), date of resource creation (if available). Medium of publication.

Date of access.

The Purdue OWL Family of Sites. The Writing Lab and OWL at Purdue and Purdue U, 2008. Web. 23 Apr. 2008.

Felluga, Dino. Guide to Literary and Critical Theory. Purdue U, 28 Nov. 2003. Web. 10 May 2006.

A Page on a Web Site

For an individual page on a Web site, list the author or alias if known, followed by the information covered above for entire Web sites. Remember to use n.p. if no publisher name is available and n.d. if no publishing date is given.

"How to Make Vegetarian Chili." . eHow, n.d. Web. 24 Feb. 2009.

An Article in a Web Magazine

Provide the author name, article name in quotation marks, title of the Web magazine in italics, publisher name, publication date, medium of publication, and the date of access. Remember to use n.p. if no publisher name is available and n.d. if not publishing date is given.

Bernstein, Mark. "10 Tips on Writing the Living Web." A List Apart: For People Who Make Websites. A List Apart

Mag., 16 Aug. 2002. Web. 4 May 2009.

Article in an Online-only Scholarly Journal

MLA requires a page range for articles that appear in Scholarly Journals. If the journal you are citing appears exclusively in an online format (i.e. there is no corresponding print publication) that does not make use of page numbers, use the abbreviation n. pag. to denote that there is no pagination for the publication.

Dolby, Nadine. “Research in Youth Culture and Policy: Current Conditions and Future Directions.” Social Work and

Society: The International Online-Only Journal 6.2 (2008): n. pag. Web. 20 May 2009.

Article in an Online Scholarly Journal That Also Appears in Print

Cite articles in online scholarly journals that also appear in print as you would a scholarly journal in print, including the page range of the article. Provide the medium of publication that you used (in this case, Web) and the date of access.

Wheelis, Mark. "Investigating Disease Outbreaks Under a Protocol to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention."

Emerging Infectious Diseases 6.6 (2000): 595-600. Web. 8 Feb. 2009.

An Article from an Online Database (or Other Electronic Subscription Service)

Cite articles from online databases (e.g. SIRS) and other subscription services just as you would print sources. In addition to this information, provide the title of the database italicized, the medium of publication, and the date of access.

Junge, Wolfgang, and Nathan Nelson. “Nature's Rotary Electromotors.” Science 29 Apr. 2005: 642-44. SIRS

Knowledge Resource. Web. 5 Mar. 2009.

Langhamer, Claire. “Love and Courtship in Mid-Twentieth-Century England.” Historical Journal 50.1 (2007): 173-96.

ProQuest. Web. 27 May 2009.

Sample Works Cited Page:

Works Cited

"Blueprint Lays Out Clear Path for Climate Action." Environmental Defense Fund. Environmental Defense Fund, 8

May 2007. Web. 24 May 2009.

Clinton, Bill. Interview by Andrew C. Revkin. “Clinton on Climate Change.” New York Times. New York Times, May

2007. Web. 25 May 2009.

Dean, Cornelia. "Executive on a Mission: Saving the Planet." New York Times. New York Times, 22 May 2007. Web.

25 May 2009.

Ebert, Roger. "An Inconvenient Truth." Rev. of An Inconvenient Truth, dir. Davis Guggenheim. . Sun-

Times News Group, 2 June 2006. Web. 24 May 2009.

. Cooler Heads Coalition, 2007. Web. 24 May 2009.

From The Purdue OWL. Purdue U Writing Lab, 2010. Web. 17 May 2010.

Rhetorical Devices for Persuasive Speech

Required for Honors (Use five in speech, bolded)

Recommended for Standard

Rhetorical question: thoughtful questions that aren’t meant to be answered.

Can we really expect the school to keep paying from its limited resources?

Hypophora: asking a question and answering it.

But what was the result of this move on the steel industry? The annual reports for that year clearly indicate. . . .

Parallel structures

“To show kindness is praiseworthy; to show hatred is evil.”

Figurative Language (i.e. using metaphor, simile and personification)

While we wait and do nothing, we must not forget that the fuse is already burning.

The ‘rule of three’

“I ask you, is this fair, is it right, is it just?”

Anaphora: the intentional repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of a line for emphasis.

“I Have a Dream” speech

Obama’s race speech

“Ballot or the Bullet” Malcolm X

Hyperbole (using exaggeration for effect)

While we await your decision, the whole school holds its breath.

Anecdote

An anecdote is a short and interesting story taken from your past experience - or that of someone you know or have heard about. Audiences love anecdotes.

Euphemisms and connotation

overweight vs. fat

issue vs. problem

Downplaying and understating

Using key words to make important things seem unimportant

Mere, merely, so-called, however, although, despite

Expressing things in such a way as to understate their importance

The earthquake interrupted business somewhat in the downtown area.

Distinctio

The intentional reference or definition of a word in order to remove confusion, misunderstanding or ambiguity

“By ‘impossible’ I mean currently beyond our technological capabilities”

Apophasis

The raising of an issue by claiming not to mention it

“We won’t even talk about his criminal record…”

Excerpt from Obama’s race speech given on March 18, 2008:

“The children of America are not those kids, they are our kids, and we will not let them fall behind in a 21st century economy. Not this time.

“This time we want to talk about how the lines in the Emergency Room are filled with whites and blacks and Hispanics who do not have health care; who don't have the power on their own to overcome the special interests in Washington, but who can take them on if we do it together.

“This time we want to talk about the shuttered mills that once provided a decent life for men and women of every race, and the homes for sale that once belonged to Americans from every religion, every region, every walk of life. This time we want to talk about the fact that the real problem is not that someone who doesn't look like you might take your job; it's that the corporation you work for will ship it overseas for nothing more than a profit.

“This time we want to talk about the men and women of every color and creed who serve together, and fight together, and bleed together under the same proud flag. We want to talk about how to bring them home from a war that never should've been authorized and never should've been waged, and we want to talk about how we'll show our patriotism by caring for them, and their families, and giving them the benefits they have earned.”

Locate and label as many rhetorical devices as you can in the above speech.

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