 Hello and welcome to the lecture for the persuasive presentation assignment guide as with all these assignment guide lectures I highly encourage you to go ahead and go on blackboard and check out the full written assignment guide With that said, let's go ahead and dive in here and get started So in the next few minutes, I'm going to lay out what you need to know to be successful in your final presentation Inside this class so the persuasive presentation the way that the persuasive presentation works is that you and your group members will choose a Controversial current problem that exists right now in the status quo and you will need to get approval on that topic for me So when you think you have a topic go ahead and email me and I'll let you know what I think This topic has to be a controversial issue Could be a local issue and you need to make sure that you're choosing something that people in this class Are at least some of them are opposed to doing because you need to actually engage in some persuasion inside this During the presentation, you all will analyze the problem discuss its implications propose some solutions and Deal with some naysayers inside that and ultimately come up with a way that you could actually implement Some change and solvency to that problem. All right, let's go ahead and talk about the content content is huge inside this one Because not only are you providing references that are of high quality nature. You are making and supporting arguments So you should have a series of claims Connected to evidence that are all bind together with good logic inside here and are Void of any potential fallacies inside there So make sure that you're doing that kind of aim to follow that one source per minute Guideline that we've set in previous presentations if you want to be successful So at the very minimum you need to have at least eight high quality sources to pass But you should be aiming for more in the range of 20 high quality sources if you want to get a good grade on this All right, I have tentatively broke down this theoretical presentation Into a spot a five speaker model that said you could obviously adapt these main points to any size group that you were doing This four so let's go ahead and talk about the introduction the introduction is very similar to what you did last time You're gonna start off with an attention getter Have some audience adaptation of thesis statement The only thing different about the thesis statement is whereas last time it was something along the lines of today We're here to inform you about this topic this time. It should be something along the lines of today We're here to persuade you to do blah inside of here Then preview the main points where you got to choose the main points last time this time They're already chosen for you. You're gonna talk about the problems with a plan to solve the resistance to and ways to enact The change and so forth. So their main points will already be set out So let's go ahead and talk about those main points the main points in this presentation At least the first chunk of them follow what we call the stock issues paradigm Which include talking about the harms that exist the reasons why they exist a plan to solve and why that plan actually Does solve inside of here so start off with a harm and the harm should be something bad that is happening Right now in the world ultimately because of whatever problem it is that you want to talk about and so say for example We were going to give a presentation on why marijuana should be legalized We might start off by talking about the harm associated with Environmental degradation that's taking place throughout the Northwest United States as people are trying to grow marijuana Inside the forest and we can talk about the extent to which this environmental Degregation is happening who is affected by all these chemicals and things that are being poured in the streams and what the consequences Is it are because of this and of course using facts and statistics to go ahead and support all these claims that we were making We're going to do this again We could say that perhaps prisons are overcrowded and we could talk about how overcrowded they are Who is affected and then the reason why we could say because people are being locked up For being arrested for a possession and distribution and other things related to marijuana This leads us to the inherency and the inherency is the argument for cause The reason why these problems continue to exist and in the case of marijuana being illegal It has to do with the law the fact that marijuana is labeled a scheduled one narcotic Underneath the United States federal law and in addition to that that we have treaty agreements that we've signed South American countries that says under no circumstances will we ever legalize Marijuana so that being said that moves us on to the next point for us to be able to Solve any of the harms that we talked about we need a plan that Overcomes the speed bump right over comes the Inherency and allows us to do something about the harms and that's where the plan comes in the plan is a policy change These are policy change You can't just say we should have some awareness Awareness is not going to cut it if anyone comes up and just says we need more awareness You are already failing this part of the presentation Instead think of a policy that you can change that might make these things better So in the case of marijuana being illegal, let's go ahead and make it legal our plan The United States federal government should enact a bill that will be signed by the president's legalizing marijuana Reclassifying it as a recreational Substance and we're going to go to say that that'll be passed by Congress signed by the president It's going to be funded through normal means We would hope that this Would pass as soon as possible, but it would probably take about a year for it really to have any effect and Shoots, let's go ahead and say the FDA is going to be the enforcement mechanism Inside this what I've done is laid it out a potential plan that is going to solve these things We might need to add a writer on that to say we're going to renegotiate our treaties with South American countries So that we're not being bound by those treaty laws But nonetheless, we have a plan that could potentially solve the problem that leads us to the next step We actually have to explain and give sources and evidence that things would get better, right? So in the first part we said that we had prompts the environmental Degregation in a world where marijuana is legal I suppose we could argue that people could just go ahead and grow this stuff up and down the central valley assuming that There's some water and as a result for that we could use good sustainable farming practices that aren't going to destroy the forest Yay Harm to we're talking about overcrowded prisons If we're not throwing people in jail for possession and distribution charges anymore for marijuana less people in jail More money good thing less people having lives destroyed and all of that kind of stuff so at this point we're about halfway through the presentation and we have laid out a good stock issues argument that talks about the harms the Inherency the plan and the solvency now where things get interesting There are always going to be naysayers to any controversial issue. That's why it's controversial There weren't naysayers it probably wouldn't be an issue Nonetheless, we need to deal with their arguments in this part of the presentation We need to look at the people that say our plan shouldn't happen Try to gain some insight into why they are arguing that that's the case and showing why they are wrong Right and this is the key point that people confuse if you've got that one group member that doesn't like the group topic It's like oh great. I'll just argue against you during this part of the presentation You are fundamentally misunderstanding the presentation itself What the resistance part of the presentation is is a chance for you to explain why other people are against your plan and Why the arguments that they are making are flawed or just plain wrong or at the end of the day Don't matter because the harms that you talked about Outweigh any potential issues that they're talking about right, you know people will say that if we were to legalize marijuana that it would take over our society and that it would be a gateway drug and The amounts of addiction to harder drugs would skyrocket You know based on that we could provide some good sources and evidence that show that that's not true and that Marijuana does not tend to function as a gateway drug or even if we want to say fine You know there's right there's some evidence to support that it doesn't matter because even if everybody that Used it became an addict It would still be better than the environmental Degregation that is destroying ecosystems and like you know ultimately is up to you at angle you want to take with it But I will leave that to you and your group members But make sure that you present their arguments and you present them strongly But then you were refute those arguments with your own evidence and stances All right, so at this point we've laid out an argument. We've talked about the naysayers We've dealt with them. It's time for us to enact some persuasion and persuade our audience that something has to change So right this point we need some clear things that the people in your room Can and should be persuaded to do to make your plan a reality So in my theoretical example, we tried to argue that Congress should pass a bill One of the ways that we can call people to action as we can say hey write your congressperson Tell them to pass a bill that changes this law that changes these things Or go on to wethepeople.gov and sign this position now Here's an important point that often gets people in trouble do not speak in hypotheticals here Your goal is to actually persuade people to take action So if you just come in you're like well, you know, you could sign a petition or maybe like go to a protest Or something like that and that would be good You are epically failing the implementation stuff you need to call us to action You need to tell us what you should do. It should be something that we can actually take and Do something with so like I've had students put QR codes and have people scan them with their cell phones Signed petitions right in class. Those are great ideas. I've had people actually bring petitions in I've had people bring letters that they can sign and send to their congressperson Like make this actually happen do not just do it theoretically because you will do very horribly on this section All right last as you so go ahead and sum this thing up do the typical conclusion thing such as Reassert and reinforcing the thesis explain why you persuaded us and how you persuaded us Summarize those main points tie back to your audience and go ahead and finish with a good stylized attention getter that leave us interested and Wanting more All right, this concludes the lecture. I highly encourage you once again to check out that online assignment guide There are templates and examples and things that will help you get started inside of here But as always if you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at one of the variety of channels that are made available to you Thanks and have a fantastic day