In the advocacy speech, your audience may know nothing about the topic or argument, so you must “make the case.” In making the case for your topic, you need to raise awareness about your topic by identifying a pressing problem, discussing appropriate solutions, and outlining specific steps that the audience can take to advance these solutions.
In so doing, you must be clear (the audience may have little to no existing knowledge); you must be convincing (you are trying to sway the audience that your argument is valid); and you must be compelling (you are trying to motivate the audience enough so that they want to take specific actions). The advocacy speech requires the clarity of the impromptu, the values of the ceremonial, plus a sense of style and presence.
Requirements
You must develop an argument with congruent elements that raises audience awareness and motivates action. We can assume that the audience on red Square knows little or nothing about your topic. As such, you need to quickly and clearly make your case. You need to develop an argument that identifies problems and/or causes, outlines appropriate and congruent solutions to these problems, and spells out specific and realistic actions that the audience can take that can advance the stated solutions.
You must write a stylistically rich speech. You must write the speech through stylistic devices. Your rich writing style must meld with the argument you are advancing. You are not sprinkling one or two stylistically rich paragraphs here and there; rather, your entire argument is made in a stylistically rich way.
You must deliver the speech in an engaging manner. Though many sections of your speech are written out, you must deliver the speech in an engaging and dynamic manner. Your delivery should capitalize on the figures of style written into the argument. At a minimum, you need to deliver the speech with appropriate projection and presence for the space.
You must stay within the time limits. The speech should run 5-7 minutes. Your assignment grade will be lowered by 5 points for every 45 seconds you speak under or over the target time range.
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