Planning for the Informative Speech with Analysis
Speech Topic:
To inform my audience of the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of Generalized anxiety disorder
Rhetorical Purpose:
To inform my audience about . . .
Their own mental profile and how to recognize the symptoms so they can help themselves and others around them
Audience Analysis:
(Refer to chapter on Audience Analysis)
(RU Core Goal: a)
Summarize Audience demographics, prior exposure/knowledge, common ground/interest, disposition/attitude, and situational characteristics.
Recognizing that the majority of my audience is interested in their health and wellness as noted in the Audience Analysis poll, I believe that I can make this speech relevant and interesting by
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I will make it more general and not get into the depths of the causes and specifics of anxiety, but rather reduce the information and make sure that the message is understood by reiterating in my thesis and ending statement.
Types of Supporting Materials:
(refer to chapter on Supporting Materials)
What types of supporting materials do you plan to include? (e.g., examples, definitions, testimony, statistics, narratives, analogies)
I will include definitions and statistics of anxiety in my paper.
Types of Research Sources:
(RU Core Goal: v)
What types of research sources (e.g., primary, secondary, and/or tertiary) do you plan to use to support the thesis statement and main points? Please explain. Note: 5 credible and relevant sources are required including at least 1 source from a Rutgers University Libraries periodical database.
I plan on using primary and secondary research sources to make my main points along with Rutgers Library sources.
Research Tools Utilized: (refer to Comm380 research guide - http://libguides.rutgers.edu/ publicspeaking) (RU Core Goal: y)
What tools did you use during your research to find your sources? (e.g. Google Scholar, Library Databases, Book or Journal resources, etc.)
I used Google scholar mainly but also used Rutgers Library database and spoke to a librarian regarding my topic.
What information from this source would be most useful to include in your informative/explanatory article?
My last few sources were for quotes and small evidence throughout the research paper. I
What information from this source would be most useful to include in your informative/explanatory article?
The way we conducted are research was from various sources. We got most of our books from a field trip our school took to the University of Washington. This soon led us to many endless nights of trying to better emphasize our thesis, until we realized the main purpose
The library portal is the first website which I went through to get my sources. The databases I used were LexisNexis and Abscohost. The reasons
The research part of this project was done through Cornell notes, which were tedious at first, but I realized that it helped a lot when I actually put my project together. I used a variety of sources, mostly from credible websites.
Research must be based on good academic sources and I plan on using The Devry Library, The Ebesco Search, as
My first step to research was to search various search engines to find scholarly journals or other types of secondary sources that were credible and available
When beginning to research for this project, it seemed that a lot of credible sources were from universities or other educational establishments. The best website is sponsored by Vanderbilt University and has awesome information and was very eye-catching. There was also another site sponsored by The University of North Carolina at Charlotte and it gave good information but not as much as the best one. Lastly, I chose a site that was not very good at all to discuss what makes it not credible. Knowing the difference between a credible source and a non-credible source is crucial to the research process. Each site chosen for this project has several pros and cons of why it is either credible or non-credible.
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I have used scholarly journals and articles from credible authors, writers, and speakers. All of my sources are beneficial to this topic.
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