Schedule for Final Speeches (Speech#2)

Monday

Cannell, Grace
Grimes, Megan
Jiang, Siyue
Zheng, Jason
Paletta, Zoey
Rude, Eric
Coppola, Anthony
Rober, Alaina
Kocher, Paxton
Lindsey, Konnor 

Wednesday

Cramer, Jake 
Zhong, Wenkuan
Rojvachiranonda, Nat
Los, Ashley
Tulley, Jack
Zellner, Leah 
Harris, Klaire 
Marks, Jonah
Picchietti, Matthew 

Speech #2 Rehearsals

Monday	Wednesday
Jason	Paxton
Klaire	Wenkuan
Matthew	Anthony
Grace	Leah
Konnor	Zoey
Nat	Alaina
Jake	Siyue
Jack	Eric
Megan	Ashley Jonah

Group Work on Outlines

• Discuss the outlines one at a time. Spend at least 5 minutes on each of the outlines. 
• In the beginning the writer does not say anything about his/her proposal. Other members in the group go through the slides and see whether they get a clear sense of how the speech would go. Provide suggestions regarding the overall proposal and the organization of ideas. 
• Then pay special attention to the specifics of the proposal and offer suggestions for improvement. 
• Does the writer need to provide more vivid description of the problem? 
• Does the proposal need to provide more details on the steps to be taken to implement the solution? 
• Should the writer provide more reasons? discuss alternative solutions? present cost-benefit analysis, bring in some precedents? 
• Are there enough evidences to persuade the audience about the seriousness of the problem and the justification for the solution? 
• Has the writer considered priorities and values of the audience in selecting and developing reasons and evidences? 
• Now discuss how should the writer develop a PPT out of the outline. Specifically focus on what kinds of visual evidences they might need to use/find.

Revise and develop your outline further after the group discussion and update the outline posted on your blog. 

Short Speech

• 2-3 minutes.
• Prepare for around 5 minutes.
• You can present all three parts of your proposal argument or just focus on one aspect. 
• Group members should assume that they are the target audience. Also try to play the role of a devil's advocate/skeptic and ask several questions. 
• The main goal of the group members is to examine whether the proposal sounds strong and realistic. 

Analysis of Sample Proposals

Individually:
1. Make a list of two strengths and two weaknesses of each of the samples.
2. Rank these proposals in terms of how well they make their argument. Assume that you were actually evaluating these proposals for real change.
3. Post it to your individual blog.

In Group:
1. Discuss the strengths and weaknesses.
2. Make a list of four successful strategies and four weaknesses (from all the proposals)
3. Rank these proposals.
4. Post it--ranking, strengths and weaknesses--here as a comment. 

John Oliver's Last Week Tonight on "Net Neutrality"

Questions to think about:
1. Is this a proposal argument?
2. Is this an informed argument?
3. Does it describe the problem well? What rhetorical tools does he use to describe the problem?
4. Does it offer a specific solution?
5. Does it justify the solution well?
6. Does it follow the typical order of organization used in proposal argument?
7. If his target audience were FCC members and he was actually submitting a proposal to them, what do you think he would do differently?

After we watch the video, spend around five minutes to reflect on these questions. Then we will discuss it. 

Topics for Proposal Assignment

Post at least 5 topics for proposal argument as a comment here.