Persuasive Speech

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In the past month, Sierra and I met several times to help each other develop and deliver the Aristotle speech. On Sierra’s first outline (Pablo Escobar and the CIA), I helped her write the Specific Purpose, the attention getter, and intro topic/ link to audience. We struggled to figure out the credibility of the argument, since there were not enough credible sources to support her proposition. Afterwards, she decided to change her topic because even writing the outline became too difficult because of lack of evidence. For her second topic, I was able to help her more because there was enough credible evidence. After we had met to discuss sources, she shared her outline with me through Google Drive, and she began to write the body points. I…show more content…
I also had to write down ‘Credibility’ and ‘Preview’ because she had forgotten to do so. Sierra did an amazing job at using the sources we found to incorporate them to her speech, however she needed help with her transition sentences. For the first transition sentence she wrote “Old school people might view street art as graffiti, but it is two completely different things because it can show self-expression”. I told her that her transition sentence needed to be an introduction to her first main point, and that she needed make it obvious to her audience that it was the first main point. She acknowledged that her transition sentence didn’t indicate what she would say next, so she let me edit that sentence. Instead, I wrote “The first reason street art is a form of art is because it…show more content…
After I had written my body paragraphs she had written the beginning of the sentence for me. For example, on the first one she wrote “Let’s start to examine why…” so that I could begin to talk about why solitary confinement is unethical. By doing this, Sierra helped my speech transition well from each body point leading to the counter argument and rebuttal. Then she had mentioned that I had only written “Speaker” on the heading and that I did not write the rest of the heading like the purposes, and

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