Speech 3 Proposal
Speech 3 Proposal
Due Sunday by 11:59pm Points 2 Submitting a file upload
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Speech 3 Proposal
Assignment
This proposal will be much like the previous two. However, since Speech 3, the Informative Speech,
introduces research, we have to consider new factors, such as how to assemble the best information and
how to determine what qualifies as necessary information. Therefore, after addressing the usual six steps
(context, audience, general purpose, etc.) you will work your way through some additional questions.
Remember, this should be an essay.
The additional steps are meant to get you thinking about what information you will need for a rich informative
speech that can teach the audience something new. Starting early is important because you need to be
thinking about your research plan—i.e., how you will go about finding that information—before you can do
the research. At this point in the Speech 3 process, I am okay with explanations about the type of research
you think you’ll need to do and why. For example, you can explain what types of sources you will look for and
where you will be looking for material. You should be specific, though. Do you have a prefe
ed database?
Do you know what types of journals you should be looking in? As you write, then, try to make distinctions
such as “I will use such-and-such databases to look for information about . . .”
Note: Just because a source is in the li
ary database does not make it instantly credible.
Here is s numbered list of the things you need in your proposal, starting with the six steps usually required at
the proposal stage and four additional steps:
1. speech context
2. audience
3. general purpose
4. topic
5. specific purpose
6. working thesis
7. types of research you will use to get that information and why
8. most likely resources
9. organizational strategy/pattern
Note: Do not respond with a numbered list. You should write an essay.
Speech 3 Proposal is due by Sunday, October 20 at 11:59 pm. Use the drop box on WebCampus.
Criteria for Evaluation
+You follow instructions
+You produce an essay that provides answers to each question listed above in detail thorough enough that
an outside party would understand your project topic, goals, and aims
+You thoroughly think about and explain what specific types of research you plan to do and why
+You are specific and transparent about where you plan to do research and why
+You explain the organizational strategy (or “pattern”) that you will employ and explain why it’s the
strategy/pattern that makes the most sense for your speech
+You have an essay with an introduction, body, and conclusion. Your paragraphs have clear topic sentences,
develop logically, and stay on topic.
+You use MLA or APA style guidelines
+You meet the minimum basic requirements of college writing, which means that you write in full sentences,
vary sentence structure, and submit a paper as free of e
ors as possible (e.g., typos, comma splices, fused
sentences)