Persuasive Speech Outline

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Persuasive speech outline Topic: Social Media Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience that social media is making us smarter I. Intro: A. Evidence: The Irish Daily Mirror reports that experts at Trinity College Dublin have discovered that chat rooms and social networking sites can flex your brain muscles and make you smarter. according to research the more we use social networking sites, the more intelligent we become. B. Example: Social media, especially Facebook, can rapidly expand the working memory and therefore make us all more intelligent because our brains have to work extra hard to keep up with game scores and status updates of hundreds of friends. The scientists at Trinity College believe that our level of intelligence may continue to grow depending on advances in social networking and social media. II . Body : A. Emergency Response. 1. Examples: Big Easy 2. Hurricane Katrina 3. Haiti experiences a 7.0 magnitude earthquake. a. By January 14th, a mere two days later, over $5 million dollars are raised by the American Red Cross leveraging a simple SMS text campaign for donations. b. People trapped under rubble, but still holding onto their cell phones are able to be found by status updates on Facebook and tweets on Twitter. B. Education 1. Example of my dad 2. Compare old days and nowadays. C. Community. 1. Worldwide community D. Dating. 1. People are finding the loves of their lives leveraging social media 2. How does social media dating make us smarter? Simple. Without the luxury of having someone in front of you day and night or spying on them, the only way to find out who the real “them” is, is to observe them in action with their friends, daily activities, likes, interests, etc. E. Economic Growth. 1. We’ve all had our opportunity to complain about how the economy crashing has negatively impacted our

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