You will plan a persuasive presentation, analyze your audience, choose appropriate strategies and an effective outline.

(1)Brainstorm topic ideas and then choose a good topic for a persuasive presentation that interests you. Your project submission should include your notes from this process.

(2) Once you have decided on your topic, prepare an outline. Plan how to use logos (logic and evidence), ethos (establishing trust and credibility), and pathos (emotion / the audience's psychological needs) to support your position. Label these in your outline.

a.Write a well-worded position statement.

b.Ethos (Credibility): Establish your credibility with your audience and plan how to increase it if needed.

c.Pathos (Emotion): Think of at least 2 specific ways to create audience involvement with your topic. Consider your audience your classmates, or another specified audience, such as your instructors, Americans traveling to your country on business, etc.Be creative!

d.Logos (Logic): Research your topic to find evidence, examples, quotes, illustration, etc. to support your position. Be sure to keep a record of where you found your evidence, and add your sources as part of your project submission.