Speech Requirements
SAMPLE PERSUASIVE SPEECH OUTLINE
(Monroe’s Motivated Sequence)
Title: Organ Donation
Name: Susie Smith
General Purpose: To persuade
Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience to donate their organs and tissues when they die and to act upon their decision to donate.
Time: 8 min. 29 sec.
I. INTRODUCTION
(Attention)
A. Attention Material/Credibility Material:
1. How do you feel when you have to wait for something you really, really want? What if it was something you couldn’t live without?
2. Well, my cousin was five years old when he found out he needed a new kidney. He went on the organ waiting list right away. He was called twice during a six month span that they had a kidney available only to find out that the kidney wasn’t a good match. He had to wait again. The third time was a charm. A small adult was in an accident and his kidney was a good match. This story had a happy ending but so many do not.
B. Tie to the audience: One of the people on the waiting list for an organ transplant might be someone you know.
C. Thesis and Preview:
1. Thesis Statement – The need is constantly growing for organ donors and it is very simple to be an organ donor when you die.
2. Today I’d like to talk to you about first, the need for organ donors in our area, second, how you can become an organ donor after you die, and finally, how your family and organ donor recipients benefit from you donation.
[Transition into body of speech]: I’ll begin by telling you about the need for organ donors.
II. BODY
(Need)
A. Main Point #1 – People around the world but also right here in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Illinois, need organ transplants and they need our help.
1. Statement of Need for Action: The problem is that there is a lack of organs and organ donors who make organ transplantation possible.
a. Description of Problem: The need is many organs and tissues such as the heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, pancreas, corneas, bone, skin, heart
(Monroe’s Motivated Sequence)
Title: Organ Donation
Name: Susie Smith
General Purpose: To persuade
Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience to donate their organs and tissues when they die and to act upon their decision to donate.
Time: 8 min. 29 sec.
I. INTRODUCTION
(Attention)
A. Attention Material/Credibility Material:
1. How do you feel when you have to wait for something you really, really want? What if it was something you couldn’t live without?
2. Well, my cousin was five years old when he found out he needed a new kidney. He went on the organ waiting list right away. He was called twice during a six month span that they had a kidney available only to find out that the kidney wasn’t a good match. He had to wait again. The third time was a charm. A small adult was in an accident and his kidney was a good match. This story had a happy ending but so many do not.
B. Tie to the audience: One of the people on the waiting list for an organ transplant might be someone you know.
C. Thesis and Preview:
1. Thesis Statement – The need is constantly growing for organ donors and it is very simple to be an organ donor when you die.
2. Today I’d like to talk to you about first, the need for organ donors in our area, second, how you can become an organ donor after you die, and finally, how your family and organ donor recipients benefit from you donation.
[Transition into body of speech]: I’ll begin by telling you about the need for organ donors.
II. BODY
(Need)
A. Main Point #1 – People around the world but also right here in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Illinois, need organ transplants and they need our help.
1. Statement of Need for Action: The problem is that there is a lack of organs and organ donors who make organ transplantation possible.
a. Description of Problem: The need is many organs and tissues such as the heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, pancreas, corneas, bone, skin, heart