CCCC Communications
COM 231 - Perry
SPEECH 3 - Preparation Sheet Requirements
Using your textbook for a guide...
1) Write the Specific Purpose.
2) Write the Central Idea.
3) Tell how you have adapted your material to this audience:
a) Include with this a continuum and locate this audience's
latitudes of acceptance, rejection, and noncommitment.
b) Tell who your target audience is and how many you
believe fall in to this category.
4) Tell how you will establish your ethos (i.e. credibility)
5) Tell what type of persuasive speech you will be giving and
the pattern of organization that you will use.
6) What is the goal of your speech - passive agreement or
immediate action?
7) If your speech is a "question of policy speech"
a) What is the need?
b) What is the plan?
c) What is the practicality?
8) What types of reasoning will you be using in this speech?
Explain how you will use each.
9) Will you use emotional appeal?
If so, to which emotion will you appeal and how will
you develop and use this appeal?
10) Write a bibliography with at least five or more sources.