Be very detailed when filling out the attached. This is a topic proposal, and it will be looking at this carefully and giving feedbackapproval on the topic, on organization, and many other elements. The more thorough you, the better because then. Here are a list of not-approved topics. Mostly it is because these topics have been done too many times: – texting and driving -mandatory vaccines -the death penalty – pro or con -legalizing drugs – it is overdone (you can pick something regarding drugs but must ask so I can approve and make sure it is not something overdone) -abortion (legal or illegal) -minimum wage being raised -donating blood – Free college (overdone – again, you can do something within this topic, but it must be very specific ) Persuasive Speech Preparation Worksheet Name _____________________________________ Section ______________________________________ 1. What is the topic of your speech? _____________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Are you speaking on a question of fact, value, or policy? ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. What is your specific purpose statement? ______________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Is your speech meant to achieve passive agreement or immediate action from your audience? Explain. ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ 5. What is your central idea? ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ 6. What is the target audience for your speech? How will you adapt your speech to be persuasive to your target audience? Be specific. ________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ 7. What method(s) of gaining attention do you use in the introduction? ________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ 8. How will you establish your credibility in the introduction? ________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ 9. Write the preview statement you will use in your introduction. ____________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ 10. What method of organization do you use in the speech? (Monroe’s motivated sequence, comparative advantage, problem- solution, problem cause solution) Why do you feel this is the best to use? _____________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ 11. State in full sentences the main points to be developed in the body of your speech. ____________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ 12. Where do you plan to find evidence when developing each main point? _____________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ 13. What counter arguments can you think of that some might have? How will you address these and refute them? ____________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ 14. What method(s) of reinforcing your central idea do you use in the conclusion? ________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Purchase answer to see full attachment Tags: Persuasive Speech credibility Good communication skills audience engagement purpose statement 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.