INSTRUCTIONS
1.) Watch this Ted Talk by Julian Treasure "How to speak so people want to listen":
2.) Prompt A: Respond to the following question using complete sentences. Your total response should be at least 7 sentences. Question: What elements of Julian Treasure's presentation do you think are most important for persuading an audience? Why?
3.) Watch this Ted Talk by Bryan Stevenson "We need to talk about an injustice":
4.) Prompt B: Respond to the following question using complete sentences. Your total response should be at least 7 sentences. Question: Using the speaking elements from the Julian Treasure presentation in Prompt A, apply these elements to Bryan Stevenson's presentation. What makes Bryan Stevenson's presentation a successful approach to persuasive speaking? Why?
5.) Prompt C: Using the IPDA Aff Debate Case
template, type out your own affirmative debate case on the following topic: "Social media causes more harm than good." Please use the IPDA Aff Debate Case
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as a template for your response and then attach your affirmative debate case to your reply to this discussion board. Remember you are affirmative, so you agree with the topic as it is stated. This will be good preparation for when you are affirmative next week on the same topic but you will be turning your debate case into a spoken speech on video. The video portion won't be due until next week though, just work on outlining your affirmative debate case using IPDA Aff Debate Case
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template using the above instructions.