Persuasive Speech - You Should Rent Your Textbooks

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Hieu Nguyen Professor: David Lapakko November 10th, 2011 Strategy Paper for Persuasive Speech Thesis Statement Today, I would like to share with you some of the advantages that renting textbooks has over buying them. Textbook rentals will first help you shrink your expense budget, then help you free up your room or dorm, and lastly help you contribute in sustaining our climate. Audience and Obstacles Analysis 1. What is the audience’s predisposition toward your thesis? The audience might already know about textbook rental service, but they might not know and appreciate how textbook rental can benefit them because they might be used to with the usual way of buying used textbooks and selling them afterward. 2. The part of the class that would agree with me is ones that are procrastinating when buying textbooks for their classes and ones that are currently renting books mostly. For the procrastinators, they will wait until last minute to go to bookstore when most of used books are gone and they are charged high prices of new books. They are not happy with that. The used books might save them 30% compared to the new books while textbook rentals could save them about 50% or more. Hence, they would be happy to hear about the options that could help them save. 3. The part of the class would be neutral with my thesis is ones who currently renting textbooks instead of buying them. They would be happy and comfortable with the savings they receive from textbook rentals. Since they already know about the textbook rentals, what I say to them might not significantly be persuasive. My speech might just provide some more information to them and somehow convince them to know that they could do more than savings money from textbook rentals. 4. The part of the class would be disagree with my these would be ones who currently buying used books for
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