Write the given Persuasive Speech. A speech designed to change, instill, or intensify the audience's attitudes, beliefs, values, or behaviors.
Debatable Topic: Should people with terminal illnesses have the right to doctor assisted suicides?
Requirements:
•6-9 minutes
•2-5 mainheads
•4 sources other than dictionary or encyclopedia
•Build Speech in the refutation format
•Do not state anything in the opposing view that cannot be refute
•Give the opposing view first and your view last
•State the arguments for the other side, then state why and how the arguments for the side you support are better
•Give accurate definitions
•Be fair and non-judgmental Forms of argumentation:
•Deductive - goes from general information to specific information
•Inductive - goes from specific information to general information
•Argument by analogy - relates one idea to a similar situation Use Aristotle's four modes of proof
•Ethos - ethics proof
•Pathos - emotional proof
•Logos - logical proof
•Mythos - cultural values or beliefs.