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Finding a persuasive speech pro/con partner
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Finding a persuasive speech pro/con partner

  • Due Apr 17, 2024 by 11:59pm
  • Points 100
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Let's try to set up partners with a common topic, with one student taking a pro position,  and the other student taking a con position, and let's try for each student to upload a speech in Bongo, in MindTap. 

You can post your topic here, and you can select your own partner. You can write to one another in Canvas messaging, as well. 

To prepare for the persuasive speech, and improve your technique, I suggest you use both the table of contents of MindTap and the random search feature, so that you can learn from "The Speaker's Handbook" effectively some techniques and points which you can bring into your speech. 

Let''s just go ahead and try this quickly, and we can always do a second try, to perfect it. 

I will set up a due date for the Wednesday after Spring Break. 

Leor

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Hi, Everyone:

In response to a question from a student about the two assignments:  "PERSUASION SPEECH -- IN-CLASS PARTNER PRO/CON PREPARATION" and "PERSUASIVE SPEAKING IN CLASS"-- as to whether they are two different assignments, I wrote the following, which I will share with you. Also, as I am thinking of this, if you are unable to find a partner to do the partner pro/con assignment, a single student could actually take both sides of an argument. This is sometimes done in practice for debates, when a teacher arbitrarily assigns a pro or a con position on a topic to a student. It helps the student focus on the technique of the speech, so that you dissociate your actual feelings on a topic from the issue... It might feel a little weird at first, but it's a great exercise to train your mind to use logic. It also can help you to understand--and defeat!--the other side from the one you actually believe!

 I was thinking of the persuasive speech as addressing a controversial topic, and you would take one position on the issue, and you would present an argument, trying to persuade your audience (who is anyone). This would be like an opinion piece or editorial in a newspaper, on any topic that lends itself to having differences of opinion. These topics need to be presented in a question which could be responded to in a yes or no. That is the general idea. However, sometimes the topic is not presented explicitly as a yes/no question, because there are many nuances and implications to it, so that a sophisticated argument would weave in those nuances while coming out with some sort of clarifying opinion in the end.

The partner speech would be set up like a debate question, very concretely.

Let me give you an example. So, ChatGPT and Artificial Intelligence have come into the public arena as a topic, because they are now available for free to anyone. Educators have responded generally in two ways: fear that students will cheat using AI, and excitement that AI could provide new ways of teaching and learning. So, for the persuasive speech (no partner), you could generally discuss AI in education, and provide some kind of your own opinion on it. In other words, you could be exploring, explaining, and kind of arguing and persuading in the end, when you yourself figure out where you stand on it.

The partner one would be much more clear cut. The question would have to be framed concretly: "Should teachers encourage students to use ChatGPT? One student would take a "no" position, the other would take a "yes" position. Of course, in each student's speech, the student could discuss all the nuances as well, and could do some of those other things, but would have to come down on one side or the other clearly with a logical argument.

Leor

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