Persuasive Speech Outline 1. INTRODUCTION (Attention) 1. Attention Material/Credibility Material: 11/14/2019, I was a school employee for the William S. Hart School District during the Saugus High School Shooting overseeing the emails from the district to the schools, messaging with my students who are in lockdown at the school I work for. 2. Tie to the audience: Later on in life if you have children they will go to a school, and they could be apart of a school tragedy. 3. Thesis and Preview: Schools need a better security presence. 4. Today I’d like to talk to you about first, the need for more security at our schools, second, how you can write/request for more security and safety measures at our schools, and finally, how your children will benefit from the increase of security and safety measures. 5. [Transition, internal preview, into body of speech]: I’ll begin by telling you about the need for more security and safety measures at our K-12 schools. (Need) 1. BODY 2. Main Point #1 — Schools should be a safe place for the nation’s children to learn and grow, however 11% of our nation’s crimes come from our schools. Example/Narrative and/or Facts/Statistics 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Some of our young children and youths bring their experiences, memories, and violent behavior with them to school. Aggression in American schools manifests itself in attacks on teachers and students, vandalism, and property damage. Over three million assorted crimes – about 11% of all crimes – occur each year in America’s 85,000 public schools. Every hour, on school campuses, more than 2,000 students and about 40 teachers are physically attacked. A school crime is taking place every six seconds. Each day some 100,000 children take guns to school. Every hour, on school campuses, nearly 900 teachers are threatened. [Transition: Internal Review and Preview] (Satisfaction) 1. Main Point #2 — Present Solution that Satisfies Need: This is how you can contact your school district about implementing more security and safety measures at your child’s school. 2. Description of Solution- Write a letter to the school board. 3. How Solution Satisfies Need- It will tell the school board that there needs to be a change in how we preform safety measures and they will see examples n how we need more security. 4. How Solution can be Implemented- Write the letter, send it to the school board or bring it to the meeting and discuss what you and other people think. 5. Plan of Action- write to your school board and show them how and why they should expand safety measures, the school board is usually on the side of expanding security and safety so if you have a good case it will go through into action. 6. Step of Plan: a. Write the letter. b. Send it to the school board. c. Get the board to see that there is a problem. d. Board implements safety and security measures. Such as more security or more drill practice or mental health services. [Transition: Internal Review and Preview] (Visualization) 1. Main Point #3 — Visualize Results- More school safety benefits everyone, children should not fear going to their place of learning. 2. Describe Expected Results of Action3. Describe Consequences of Inaction- crime rates in schools could increase, we can see more innocent children that are trying to get an education die due to school shootings, drug overdoses, suicides from bullying. III. CONCLUSION: [Transition: As you can easily see we need more security and safety measures in our schools. (Action) 1. Brakelight- As you can easily see we need more security and safety measures in our schools. 2. Summary- A good chunk of the nation’s crimes happen at our schools but we can prevent some of this from happening. 3. Tie Back to the Audience- What if your child was at the school at a school tragedy such as a shooting? Would you want your child to be safe at school? Write to your school board about how to make things safer at the school, they will listen, they are elected to make schools a safe place to learn. 4. Concluding Remarks- Schools are made to produce the future of this country, and we need to protect our future the best we can. Please, write to your school board, share the concerns and stats of school tragedies. Tell them what they can fix, we need to protect our youth as one community; show them that we want them to succeed. CALL TO ACTION Bibliography Holt, Jim. ‘Saugus High Shooting Leaves 2 Dead, 4 Injured.’ Santa Clarita Valley Signal, 15 Nov. 2019, signalscv.com/2019/11/paramedics-respond-to-report-of-gunshot-woundat-saugus-high-school/ Mandal, Saunak. ‘How to Change Policy at School.’ NYRA, www.youthrights.org/action/toolkit/change-school-policy/. Molly. ‘Classroom Security: 5 Ways Schools Can Improve Safety.’ Peterson’s, Peterson’s, 25 Apr. 2019, www.petersons.com/blog/classroom-security-5-ways-schools-canimprove-safety/. ‘Safe Schools: Lessons from the SitesSafe Schools: Lessons From The Sites.’ Safe Schools: Lessons From The Sites – Issues …about Change, Safe Schools: Lessons from the Sites, Volume 5, Number 2, sedl.org/change/issues/issues52.html. XQ#ReThinkHighSchool, Team, et al. ‘How to Write a Letter to the School Board.’ Rethink Together, 7 Dec. 2020, xqsuperschool.org/rethinktogether/how-to-write-a-letter-to-theschool-board/. . Purchase answer to see full attachment Tags: Persuasive Speech criminology safety measures User generated content is uploaded by users for the purposes of learning and should be used following our company’shonor code & terms of service.

MLA In-Text Citations: The Basics

Guidelines for referring to the works of others in your text using MLA style are covered throughout the MLA Handbook and in chapter 7 of the MLA Style Manual. Both books provide extensive examples, so it’s a good idea to consult them if you want to become even more familiar with MLA guidelines or if you have a particular reference question.

BASIC IN-TEXT CITATION RULES

In MLA Style, referring to the works of others in your text is done using parenthetical citations. This method involves providing relevant source information in parentheses whenever a sentence uses a quotation or paraphrase. Usually, the simplest way to do this is to put all of the source information in parentheses at the end of the sentence (i.e., just before the period). However, as the examples below will illustrate, there are situations where it makes sense to put the parenthetical elsewhere in the sentence, or even to leave information out.

General Guidelines

• The source information required in a parenthetical citation depends (1) upon the source medium (e.g. print, web, DVD) and (2) upon the source’s entry on the Works Cited page.
• Any source information that you provide in-text must correspond to the source information on the Works Cited page. More specifically, whatever signal word or phrase you provide to your readers in the text must be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of the corresponding entry on the Works Cited page.

IN-TEXT CITATIONS: AUTHOR-PAGE STYLE

MLA format follows the author-page method of in-text citation. This means that the author’s last name and the page number(s) from which the quotation or paraphrase is taken must appear in the text, and a complete reference should appear on your Works Cited page. The author’s name may appear either in the sentence itself or in parentheses following the quotation or paraphrase, but the page number(s) should always appear in the parentheses, not in the text of your sentence. For example:

Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (263).

Romantic poetry is characterized by the “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (Wordsworth 263).

Wordsworth extensively explored the role of emotion in the creative process (263).

Both citations in the examples above, (263) and (Wordsworth 263), tell readers that the information in the sentence can be located on page 263 of a work by an author named Wordsworth. If readers want more information about this source, they can turn to the Works Cited page, where, under the name of Wordsworth, they would find the following information:

Wordsworth, William. Lyrical Ballads. Oxford UP, 1967.

IN-TEXT CITATIONS FOR PRINT SOURCES WITH KNOWN AUTHOR

For print sources like books, magazines, scholarly journal articles, and newspapers, provide a signal word or phrase (usually the author’s last name) and a page number. If you provide the signal word/phrase in the sentence, you do not need to include it in the parenthetical citation.

Human beings have been described by Kenneth Burke as “symbol-using animals” (3).

Human beings have been described as “symbol-using animals” (Burke 3).

These examples must correspond to an entry that begins with Burke, which will be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of an entry on the Works Cited page:

Burke, Kenneth. Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method. University of California Press, 1966.