Speaking to Persuade

1. Speaking to Persuade Part II

2. 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

3. Preparing visual aids How will you present the information?

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

5. 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.

6. 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

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

8. Bar chart • It visually communicate the gist of its point quickly. • It also helps readers to make individual comparisons.

9. Stacked bar chart • It divides the bar into its relative proportions of 100 percent of some other variable.

10. Horizontal bar chart

11. Centrally divided horizontal bar chart

12. Pie chart

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15. Organizing your speech • Opener building on areas of agreement • Statement of purpose • Preview of persuasive points. • Body • Summary • Memorable concluding remarks • (p.132)

16. 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.

17. Group list