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Pretend you’re doing a persuasive speech and your goal is to persuade the audience to start exercising daily. And you are planning to use MMS to organize your points in the body.  Write out three main point sentences (arguments) that you could use for your arguments in the body using MMS (label with Roman numerals, use complete sentences, and keep under 12 words).

Pretend you have been invited to speak to WCC administrators (President and Deans) to convince them to improve lunch options on campus. What are TWO specific ways you can appeal to their emotion (pathos) to convince them in person?

Using AI to write your outline without attribution is acceptable.

Rosalita is helping her machine shop students to understand how to retrofit a carburetor in a 1957 Chevrolet Nomad. What would be the BEST approach for Rosalita to take?

Ingrid presented her case in the simplest of terms, in an effort to reach her audience. “All reptiles are animals. The Chesterfield skink is a reptile. Therefore, the Chesterfield skink is an animal.” What type of reasoning was Ingrid relying on?

What does it mean to “headline your visuals” when preparing a digital presentation?

Kelly’s digital presentations all took the same form: She presented an entire discussion’s worth of content on a single slide, then talked her way through it, then presented another big chunk of information on another single slide. The effect this had on her audience, understandably, is that their attention was drawn to reading the words on the slides rather than listening to her explanations. A better tactic for Kelly to use would be:

Pretend you’re doing a persuasive speech and your goal is to persuade the audience to believe that not exercising creates problems. And you are planning to use problem solution to organize your points in the body. Write out two main point sentences (arguments) that you could use for your outline using problem solution (please label with Roman numerals, use complete sentences, and keep under 12 words).

Renata is digging into her speech. “And furthermore!” she proclaims, “it is my contention that denying free health care to members of all species is simply wrong, wrong, wrong!! The mite is the toad is the rat is the dog is the weasel is the elephant is the person; all are equal in their basic needs!!” she passionately inveigles. “This principle cannot be denied! To do so is to stand in the shadows of ignorance!” Renata’s vigorous approach represents which kind of persuasive claim?

What is the function of the Works Cited citations?