Course: COM 114 Fundamentals of Speech Communication

Semester: Spring 2020

Assignment 3: Persuasive Speech Outline 15%
Instructors: Drs. Arda Jebejian, Filomachi Spathopoulou, Belen Gaspar Garcia

Rationale: The purpose of this assignment is to encourage students to prepare persuasive speeches
with ethos, pathos, and logos. Each student should communicate with his/her audience to
accomplish a specific goal and to ensure the audience accepts his/her point of view. Whether
formal or personal, this type of speech intends to bring about a change in others. Sales pitches,
legal proceedings and debates are all forms of persuasive speech. The aim is to change existing
beliefs or call the audience to take action (buy goods, join a group, etc.).

Tasks/ Instructions
 Choose one of the topics below.
 Write a persuasive speech outline, with complete sentences (minimum 200 words).
 Follow the sample outline on your Moodle page.
 Use at least two sources and prepare a reference page in APA style.
 Submit the TYPED assignment in WORD FORMAT on Turnitin on the date of final
submission announced on Moodle – July 21, 2020, 5pm.
Choose one of these topics for your outline:
1. Eat more fruits and vegetables.
2. More recycling should be encouraged.
3. People should eat less junk food.
4. People should not text while driving.

Student Name: ID:

Title of the speech Eat more fruits and vegetables

General goal of
To persuade
the Speech

Specific goal of To persuade my audience about to eating more healthy foods, more healthy
the speech life.
1. Attention: Today, I am persuaded about the importance of fruits and vegetable intake in daily
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 life which leads to an active lifestyle.

Attention getter:
Eating fruits and vegetables should be a part and a daily habit of your life because healthy food
uptake leads towards a healthy life.
Listener relevance:
Fruits and vegetables contain a large number of nutrients that are essential for your health. It
includes vitamins, minerals, and fibers that make your health strong and protect from a number
of diseases.
As I also said above that, these foods are the source of healthy life because it helps to balance,
regulate nutrition and active life by reducing the weights because it is low in fats, decrease the
cholesterol level, and also decrease the blood pressure and leads towards the healthy wealthy
lifestyle.
Speaker credibility:
I have well researched and precisely learned about the importance of fruits and vegetables in
life. They help to boost the immune system to encounter chronic diseases and also boost up
your confidence level (Dairy Council of California, 2017).
I have watched a significant number of people who take fruits and vegetables on a daily basis
and live a peaceful life without any diseases.
Thesis statement: Make the habit to intake fruit and vegetables in your daily diet and make your
life healthy.
2. Need: This is the time to change your habits and make the habit of eating fruits and vegetables and preserve a
healthy diet and habits throughout the entire life. However, further change your scenario from an unhealthy diet
to a healthy diet.

3. Solution: How can we build interest or make our young ones interested to take the fruits and
vegetables? This is a major issue nowadays; we can handle this by informing them about the
importance of fruits and vegetables in our life and by scaring from chronic disorders.

By introducing the taste of fruits and vegetables, by making or cooking in a delicious way.

4. Visualization: These solutions may help out you in order to generate interest in eating fruits

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and vegetables and make it their daily habit to pass a healthy and active life (Organic facts,
2018).

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References
Dairy Council of California. Health Benefits of Fruits. 2017. Available from https://www.
healthyeating.org/Healthy-Eating/All-Star-Foods/Fruits

Organic Facts. Benefits of Vegetables. 2018. Available from https://www.organicfacts. net/health-

benefits/vegetable

GRADING RUBRIC | ASSIGNMENT 3 | PERSUASIVE SPEECH OUTLINE| 15%

Unsatisfactor Very
Criteria Poor Average Good
y Good
Structure: Follows the
assignment requirements and 0-2 3-4 5-6 7-8 9-10
template.
Attention: Attention grabber is
present, audience relevance is
established, speaker credibility is
0-4 5-9 10-14 15-17 18-20
explained. Appeals are made to
the audience’s positive and
negative emotions.
Need: Need for change is
established, facts and support are
appropriate. In-text citations are
0-4 5-9 10-14 15-17 18-20
provided. Appeals are made to
the audience’s positive and
negative emotions.
Solution: solution is offered and
explained, demonstrates how it 0-2 3-5 6-7 8-12 13-15
meets the problem.
Visualization: The future
outcome is explained, the
0-2 3-5 6-7 8-12 13-15
audience “experiences” the
solution.
Action: A call to action is
presented. Effective, doable, and
0-2 3-4 5-6 7-8 9-10
practical steps are offered to the
audience.
Use of Language: has effective
transitions and signposts,
0-2 3-4 5-6 7-8 9-10
communicates meaning clearly, is
proofread. APA is used correctly.

TOTAL POINTS
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NOTES

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