Category: Communication

Persuasive Speech Outline Assignment Instructions
Overview
This course requires you to present a persuasive speech to a live, visually documented audience of 3 or more adults. 
The Persuasive Speech Outline in a Nutshell
The Persuasive Speech Outline Assignment requires you to research and then, using the Persuasive Speech Outline Template as your guide (below), to create a fully developed speech outline in which you, first, define and establish the existence of a specific social problem somewhere in this world and then, second, propose and justify a specific solution for this social problem. You must justify the proposed solution at least partly by showing, with sound reasoning and credible supports, how the solution, if implemented, can promote something specific (identify it) that God values according to Scripture (provide supportive biblical references, with brief commentary, to validate your claim that God values this). Use Biblical supports—the Bible counts as one of your four sources—to show that your proposed solution is a good solution at least partly because it promises to promote something that God values according to Scripture.
Grading Criteria
Your speech grade will be determined by the degree to which you satisfy the requirements listed below.
Instructions
1. Topic: Proof a social problem exists and ajustified, proposed solution for it
This assignment requires you to research a global, national, regional, state or local problem that apparently exists because humans in general or a specific group of humans are neglecting their duty to promote the things God values in this world.
• The problem may be political, economic, educational,environmental, medical, religious, or cultural. It may be a false belief or set of beliefs (about God, nature, or other people) that needs correction, a wrongful attitude or type of attitude (toward God, nature, or other people) that needs adjustment, a neglectful or wrong way of acting (toward God, nature, or other people) that needs to change, or a state of needfulness or brokenness that exists as it does because of human indifference or inactivity.
• The problem must be a social one that deters many individuals—not just a few isolated lives—from experiencing life according to God’s Word as He intended.
Among the social issues that could generate a qualified speech topic are the following:
abortion, infanticide, or euthanasia
discrimination (racism, sexism, ageism)
abuse (child, elder, self, spousal)
ecology (climate change, pollution, littering)
addictions/codependency/eating disorders
education (underachievement or illiteracy)
air, land, or water pollution
famine, drought or diseases
animal abuse or vivisection
labor issues (child labor or sweatshops)
bioethics (cloning, eugenics, stem cell research)
marriage (divorce, cohabitation)
birth or population control
poverty (world hunger or homelessness)
crime (street, juvenile, gang, or white collar)
sex (pre-marital, extramarital, homosexual)
criminal justice (prison crowding, recidivism)
slavery or human trafficking
The following sites may be helpful for discovering or exploring these and other qualified topics (see the links found in the Resources section of the assignment page in Canvas):
Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity
The Heritage Foundation
Family Research Council
The Rutherford Institute
The American Enterprise Institute
The Pew Forum on Religion in Public Life
The Discovery Institute
The Jerry Falwell Library Research Portal
Speech Goals: Because this is a persuasive speech—a speech in which you try to persuade the audience to believe or value something or to act in a specific way—and because you are to use this particular speech to advocate a redemptive (i.e., God-honoring) solution to a social problem, your goal in this presentation is to use information from appropriately credited expert sources in 2 ways:
(1) To identify the social problem and to establish, with information from credible sources, that it exists somewhere in the world, and
(2) To prescribe a redemptive remedy for the problem—a remedy that, if implemented by someone or a group of people, would promote something that God, according to Scripture, values and that, if implemented, could help somebody experience life as God, according to His Word, meant it to be experienced. Review the course text’s appendices for a helpful, extended discussion of the redemptive approach to communicating.
Examples: In such a speech, you might use information from documented expert sources to establish that abortions claimed 630 lives in your home county last year. You would then use Scripture to argue that God values human life, including preborn human life. Finally, you could argue that the county must take 3 specific steps, described by you, to eliminate or diminish the frequency of abortion in the county. Alternatively, you might also use information from documented expert sources to establish that the federal government authorizes the use of a certain chemical in the treatment of drinking water and that credible research from sources A, B, and C indicates this chemical actually causes cancer. You could use Scripture to establish that God wants humans to protect the bodies he created. You would then argue that the federal government must take steps to protectpeople by banning the chemical from use in the treatment of drinking water.
As you promote something God values (e.g., life, quality of life, creation care, etc.) through this speech, be sure you do not condone or promote something God’s Word discourages or prohibits (e.g., fornication, adultery, homosexuality). After all, a solution is redemptive only if it promotes something thatGod values according to Scripture. If you are uncertain whether your proposed solution to a social problem satisfies this standard, discuss this in advance of the project’s deadline with your instructor.
Other Topic Selection Criteria: Your topic must satisfy not only the preceding criteria, but also the topic selection criteria set forth in the course reading materials and the Liberty University Online Honor Code. In addition, your topic must comply with the following:
• Choose a Topic You Can Address Ethically: Avoid any topic that leads you to portray legally or ethically questionable texts or behaviors in a favorable light. This includes but is not limited to theses that advance sexually promiscuous activity, the use of illegal substances, or other behaviors that Liberty University’s statement of values prohibits. Questions about the appropriateness of topics, sources, etc. should be directed to your instructor early in the speech-planning process.
• Choose a Topic You Can Address Originally: Your speech topics must be researched, selected, and delivered primarily for this course and not primarily for, or in conjunction with, a presentation for a church group, a Sunday School class, a social group, or any other small group. You may not give a speech that serves a double purpose.
• Choose a Topic You Can Address as Required by the Instructions: You must choose a topic that enables you to construct the speech in a way that satisfies the specific requirements of the corresponding Grading Rubric, which lists the criteria that your instructor will use when grading your presentation.
2. Form a thesis statement and research the topic. 
Please note the following:
Process Overview: To do this, you should do the following:
(1) Form a preliminary thesis—a single-sentence statement that succinctly asserts the existence of a social problem and proposes a specific solution to for the social problem.Assume that this will be the main point of the speech.
(2) Research credible sources for thesis-related information about your topic.
(3) Finalize your thesis, modifying it if necessary to match what your research disclosed.
(4) Express this finalized thesis as a complete thought in a single-sentence topic-related statement that expresses the speech’s central idea.
(5) Choose the information from your research that most powerfully delivers the type of information that this thesis statement requires.
(6) Present this information in a logically sequenced outline of properly documented, alphanumerically-prefixed main points, sub-points, and perhaps even sub-sub-points, using the Persuasive Speech Outline Template document as your formatting guide. 
What is alphanumeric prefixing? This means you should use Roman numerals to denote main points (e.g., I, II, or III), capital letters to denote a main point’s subpoints (e.g., A, B or C), Arabic numerals to denote a sub-point’s sub-sub-points (e.g., 1, 2, or 3), etc. See the sample outline and the template, which already include this, for guidance.
(7) Your outline in its final form will serve as the blueprint that you mentally must follow while extemporaneously delivering the speech to your audience.
Source-Related Requirements: For your persuasive speech, you are required to use 4 expert sources. You must use and clearly cite examples, illustrations, statistics, quotations from experts, etc. from at least 4 expert sources in this project. An expert source is a person, group of persons, or organization with documentable expertise in the area it addresses. Information from such sources typically derives from personal interviews with credentialed experts or from documentable print and/or electronic publications.
• The Bible as an Expert Source: While you may of course use the Bible as a source when related to your topic, it must be in addition to the 4 required sources.
• Non-Expert Sources: Never use information from anonymous or questionable sources such as Wikipedia or any printed source authored by someone whose credentials for addressing the topic are not clearly established.
• Liberty University Database Source Options: It behooves you to consult the Jerry Falwell Library for access to many potentially useful, credible databases.
3. Organize your information in the form of a conventional speech outline. 
After you have finished your topic-related research and found what you believe to be enough credible information to support your original thesis statement or a modified version of the thesis, begin the process of organizing it in the form of a speech outline.
Be sure to satisfy the following guidelines:
Create a Draft Outline and then a Final Outline: The speech outline process involves 2 submissions. If you post the optional draft outline, your instructor will provideconstructive feedback to it that can help you create a stronger final outline. Submit each outline via itsdesignated submission link during the module: week when it is due.
Use the Provided Outline Template to Build Your Outline: Download the MS-Word formatted Persuasive Speech Outline Template document, in the same “Instructions” area where you found this document. Retain all of its categories and its format, but be sure to overwrite its non-boldfaced content with content of your own that is appropriate for that element in a speech that aims to support your thesis about your topic.
Use Problem-Solution or Problem-Cause-Solution Pattern to Order Your Content: For the persuasive speech outline and speech, you must use the Problem-Solution or the Problem-Cause-Solution organizational pattern for addressing your topic. See your course materials for more about this pattern.
Include All Essential Outline Sections: These include the following:
• The introduction must be listed in this order: your attention-getter, credibility statement, thesis statement, and preview statement. 
• The body must include 2–5 alphanumerically prefixed main points, each with alphanumerically prefixed supportive subpoints, and perhaps even sub-subpoints.These will consist mainly of documented examples, illustrations, statistics, quotations from experts, etc. that you have derived from the 4 or more expert sources that this project requires. 
• The conclusion must include a summary statement, a call to action, and a concluding element that refocuses the audience’s attention on the thesis.
• The Works Cited (MLA), Reference page (APA), or Bibliography (Turabian)—retain the header that your chosen manual requires and delete the other two—must properly credit your sources and must do so in the format that your chosen manual requires. See the style manual itself or see the CASAS Writing Style Guides site for guidance.
Document Your Sources Properly: Do so both in the outline itself and on an end-of-document source citation page.
• Use In-Text and End-Page Citations: Whether you directly quote, summarize, or paraphrase information from another source, always explicitly acknowledge the source from which you derived the information.
• Always Offset Direct Quotes with Quotation Marks! Place directly quoted words inside double-quotation marks to make it clear that you are not claiming to be the originator of the quotation’s wording. Failure to use double-quotation marks to offset directly quoted material constitutes plagiarism. Plagiarism a serious academic offense that can result in automatic failure of the assignment or automatic failure of the course (see the Liberty University Honor Code for more information about this).
• Avoid Plagiarism! Always explicitly attribute informationto the source from which you derived it. This requires you to place directly quotes words inside double-quotation marks and to use parenthetical citations or footnotes after the quote to show in the outline textwhich information derives from which expert source. This also requires you to create a corresponding Works Cited (MLA) page, a References page (APA), or a Bibliography page (Turabian) that lists the used sourcesin the format prescribed by the style manual that you choose for this project.
• Use Direct Quotes Sparingly: If you include directly quoted material from another source in your outline, it must account for no more than 20-percent of the outline’s content.

I need a speech about myself. I have anxiety, dyslexia (diagnosed in 3rd grade) and ADD. I also couldn’t see in class, found out I needed bifocals in 2nd grade. 19, female. I excelled at volleyball and cheerleading in spite of my social obstacles.

The topic I want you to write about is Strong Black woman schema (SBW schema) and how it effects their mental health.
Pleases read the attachment. I have provided the majority of the articles needed for this assignment. IMRaD Def:

How to Organize a Paper: The IMRaD Format

Post University academic journal articles:
Hall, J. C., Conner, K. O., & Jones, K. (2021). The Strong Black Woman versus Mental Health Utilization: A Qualitative Study. Health & Social Work, 46(1), 33–41. https://doi-org.postu.idm.oclc.org/10.1093/hsw/hlaa036
McCleary-Gaddy, A. T., & James, D. (2024). Dehumanization, attitudes toward seeking professional psychological care, and mental health among African American women. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 30(1), 166–176. https://doi-org.postu.idm.oclc.org/10.1037/cdp0000554
Thomas, Z., Banks, J., Eaton, A. A., & Ward, L. M. (2022). 25 years of psychology research on the “strong black woman.” Social & Personality Psychology Compass, 16(9), 1–23. https://doi-org.postu.idm.oclc.org/10.1111/spc3.12705
Abrams, J. A., Hill, A., & Maxwell, M. (2019). Underneath the Mask of the Strong Black Woman Schema: Disentangling Influences of Strength and Self-Silencing on Depressive Symptoms among U.S. Black Women. Sex Roles, 80(9/10), 517–526. https://doi-org.postu.idm.oclc.org/10.1007/s11199-018-0956-y
Other Articles
Castelin, S., & White, G. (2022). “I’m a Strong Independent Black Woman”: The Strong Black Woman Schema and Mental Health in College-Aged Black Women. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 46(2), 196-208. https://doi.org/10.1177/03616843211067501
Qualitative:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9881457/#:~:text=Giscombe%2C%202010).-,Abrams%20et%20al.,physical%20and%20mental%20health%20outcomes.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7544187/

During the Week 3 Assignment, Project Plan, you chose a topic and created your project plan. In the Week 3 Lesson, you read about location and access and in Week 4, you learned about organizing your digital information and storing that information responsibly. Now it is time to take the work you did in the Week 3 Assignment, Project Plan, and locate and evaluate sources (CO2 & 5) that that will lead to your Week Week 7 Assignment, Final Project. Please follow these instructions: Download the Source Evaluation Worksheet template (in Word).
Complete Parts I and II in the worksheet.
Find a minimum of three (3) sources. One (1) source must be an academic source and from the APUS Trefrey Library and the other sources must be credible and appropriate for college research.
Please include robust source summaries in your own words that explain the contents of the source and the relevance of the source to your topic.

This is all about learning how to research and begin to read and interpret academic journal articles. Please read the material attached in the description below and as attachments. Please answer the following questions:
1. What is your approach to learning and categorizing information? Any tips to share? 2. What communication-based topics interest you? Reading material:
https://todoist.com/productivity-methods/pomodoro-technique
https://pne.people.si.umich.edu/PDF/howtoread.pdf
Please include one-two references as well.

Goal: Demonstrate the ability to create a final project that uses both research-based and personal content while using presentation software to communicate with an intended audience.
Descriiption:
During the first six-weeks you formulated a project plan, researched the content of the plan, and collected quality academic and non-academic sources. For the week 7 Final Project you will create a presentation (CO8) that builds upon the Week 3 Project Plan and the Week 5 Location and Access (Source Organization worksheet) that effectively communicates the knowledge you have gained during COMM120.
Please consider the following:
Presentation will include an introduction, body, conclusion, and properly formatted reference/work cited slide in the citation style of your degree program (APA, MLA, or Chicago).
Clear evidence that the topic was researched and expanded upon the week 2 Project Plan (CO2 & 5).
Presentation provides audience with information to increase their knowledge of the topic presented (CO1).
Presentation engages the audience by using elements such as images, graphs, and charts. Appropriate citations must be included.
Three (3) vetted credible sources. One (1) of the sources must be scholarly and from the library.
Appropriate length 7-9 slides.
If you have multimedia skills and want to add creative content to your presentation, please do! Try to add any of the following enhancements and as you do, think about how it will impact your presentation and improve communication with the intended audience.
Voice narration, closed captioning, scriipt.
Appropriate background music (must be cited on reference page).
Creative use of slide animations and transitions.

After submitting your presentation, review your TurnItIn Originality Report. (Note: Review the individual flags, decide why that text is flagged, and make corrections as appropriate.).

This assignment concerns the Negotiation Worksheet posted in the Resources section this week, which was based on the video depicting a workplace negotiation. Save the worksheet document so you can fill in out and submit it. In the chart on the document, the left side column includes the negotiation strategy steps offered in the video.
For this assignment:
In the middle column, briefly explain how each step was enacted by the characters in the video.
Next, consider a conflict situation you are in, have been in, or might be in. In the far-right column, for each of the strategy steps, come up with a way you could enact the strategy to negotiate that conflict.
Video

Write a 3 page paper on the impact of social media on the mental health
of college students.
Please follow the rubric attached.

(sources are provided in my topic proposal pdf)
Introduction
Summary
The purpose of COM 308 is to familiarize the student with both academic and propriety research. The primary purpose of a review of literature is to provide a rationale for the proposed research question(s) and/or hypothesis(ses). A review of literature should represent a synthesis of existing theory and research literature that argues for the research question(s) and/or hypothesis(ses). The process of constructing a literature review acquaints the researcher with the studies already done in a particular area and allows the researcher to build/extend the existing knowledge. The key to writing a good literature review is synthesis. Purpose
The purpose of this assignment is to help you practice the following skills that are essential to your success:
Create a review of literature that synthesizes existing scholarship on a communication issue.
Identify elements of editing and be able to self edit.
Although you may not experience writing a literature review in your professional life, practicing writing in a third person voice allows you to stretch that writing muscle and develop meaningful insight into creating effective prose.
Requirements
To complete this assignment, please note:
Due Date: 1/28
Style and Format
Cover page, body, and reference page are required
4-8 pages of work APA 7th edition
Font: Times New Roman
Double spaced and margins per APA format
Step by Step Guide
To complete this assignment, follow these steps:
Identify a topic for research that focuses on communication behavior (i.e., verbal and/or nonverbal messages in some capacity). Identify a question that you have about the particular communication phenomena. (You may have a question in mind OR you may find a question by examining the literature and identifying gaps.) Please make sure that your topic is in fact appropriate to the Communication discipline. This will likely be the topic that you presented in your topic proposal. The project should build upon the research that you have already started and should be a revised version of your topic proposal.
Read relevant primary sources on the key topic and related issues. Make notes as you go that identify key ideas, variables, and definitions. Avoid using direct quotations–paraphrase ideas from others. You will need to read more material than you will end up citing in your paper in order to find useful and topic-relevant sources. You should have 6 sources referencedand cited in your final draft of the paper. You will be penalized if you do not have the appropriate number of references and they do not meet the requirements. The journals should all be peer reviewed. Additionally, please make sure that you are submitting original work. Submitting work that has been submitted for another class is considered plagiarism. Based upon the literature you have read and your own perspective on the topic, create an outline to organize the ideas for your paper.
Write the paper. Components of the paper include the following requirements:
Requirement #1: Cover Page: APA 7th edition cover page
Requirement #2: Introduction (1 page)
This will be a revision of the first paper you hand in. You should begin the introduction with an attention getter- something that draws the reader in and makes them want to read more. This should be something from the literature and not a hypothetical or anecdotal story. Throughout the entire literature review you will avoid first and second person language. This includes the introduction section. Additionally, you need a research rationale. The function of a research rationale is to justify further examination of the topic. Why is it important to communication research? Make sure that you justify examining the topic further. The paragraph where you provide your research rationale will conclude with your thesis statement. Your thesis statement will be the general point or purpose of your paper. Please start the sentence with, ‘the purpose of this paper is to…’. This will help us identify your thesis statement. The thesis statement should be a reflection of your hypothesis/research question. This will help you to focus your paper on providing evidence to support your hypothesis/research question. Finally, you should end your introduction with a preview statement. This preview will inform readers of the areas of literature that you will be discussing in the paper.
Requirement #3: Body of Literature Review (3-4 pages)
A very brief review of current literature on topic that begins generally (often with a theory or theoretical perspective) and gradually becomes more and more specific until you propose your specific H’s and/or RQ’s. This should be 3-4 pages. You will incorporate all relevant research into the discussion of your topic and ensure that you are citing appropriately. Remember that this should serve as an argument supporting your hypothesis/research question. You will need to utilize previous research findings in order to support the hypothesis that you are proposing. Please do not use arguments that do not deal directly with your hypothesis/literature review. Also, make sure that the literature that you use is appropriate and complete enough to make your argument. You should utilize and cite at least 6 sources from peer-reviewed journals.
The literature review should begin by conceptually defining each of the concepts that you are interested in. You will give a broad conceptual definition so that the reader understands the focus of your paper (if you have ever taken a conflict class, you know that a multitude of definitions exist for this concept, it is important to tell your reader how you are defining conflict). Each paragraph of the literature review should have a topic sentence. Then, the body of the paragraph should work on supporting the topic sentence. All of your topic sentences should work together to support your central thesis. When you are constructing your outline, keep in mind what main arguments you need to make in order to support your thesis. Please, do not provide a study-by-study summary of the literature. This paper should go beyond an annotated bibliography. The purpose of a focused literature review is to synthesize what scholars know about your topic, thus you should have multiple citations per paragraph and oftentimes per sentence. All constructs, variables, and theory components (if you use theory in your paper) that are relevant to your study should be defined and explained using scholarly sources (e.g., integrative conflict strategies are defined as….). When completed, your literature review should resemble the content and structure of published journal articles. This means that you should cite scholarly sources whenever an idea is not your own.
Your paper should maintain a professional tone. In order to do that, you need to use third person language. Second, don’t use hypothetical situations to illustrate a point. I don’t want to read about a case study as this is not the point of the assignment. Third, check your references! Make sure that you have the required amount and that they are peer-reviewed journals. They should be cited in your paper and in the reference page. Do not include sources in your reference page that are not cited in your paper. Fourth, don’t plagiarize. If you didn’t think of the idea, cite the person who did. This does not just apply to direct quotations. Also, do not turn in work that you have done for another class, this is self-plagiarism.
Requirement #4: Hypothesis/ Research Question
Propose research questions and/or hypotheses that emerge logically and clearly from your literature review. You should revise the hypothesis/research question from your topic proposal according to the feedback that you were given. You should present your hypothesis/research question at the end of the literature review. You will often times have a lead in paragraph that ties the research together and makes a final argument for your hypothesis/research questions. Occasionally, you will present your hypothesis/research question in a different section of the paper. If you feel that it fits better in the middle, you can put it there. Most of the time, however, they come at the end. Additionally, you need to have at least one hypothesis or research question but can have more than that. These should be set aside per APA format. You will be graded on the quality. Requirement #5: Reference Page (APA)
Your reference page. This needs to be in APA format and should contain everything that you reference in the paper. The sources should be from peer reviewed, Communication journals. This list represents communication journals.
Resources
Example Lit Review .doc
Download Microsoft Office for free
APA citationLinks to an external site.
Links to an external site.Lit Review Activity – Synthesis Example.doc
Rubric
Lit Review Grading Rubric
Lit Review Grading Rubric
Criteria Ratings Pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeIntroduction
Do you introduce the topic with a clear attention getter?
Is your attention getter interesting and from the literature?
Clear thesis?
Good preview?
5 pts
Points
0 pts
No Marks
5 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeLiterature Review
Do you synthesize the research?
Is it concise?
Do you cover the topic thoroughly?
10 pts
No Marks
10 pts
Points
10 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeResearch Question/Hypothesis
Is it in the correct format? Does it follow logically from the research presented? Is it testable?
5 pts
No Marks
5 pts
Points
5 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeStyle
Are your spelling and grammar correct? Is this well cited?
10 pts
No Marks
10 pts
Points
10 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeAPA
Are you using the 7th edition of APA?
5 pts
No Marks
5 pts
Points
5 pts
Total Points: 35

Please be sure to read every single file that is uploaded. Please be sure to label which lesson goes with which. (For example : symbolic Convergence – shushes) 
Please be sure to cite outside sources, use simple words, and if needing more time please ask for an extension! Most of all TURN IN WHEN ASSIGNMENT IS DUE. 
Everything can be turned in on both pages as you’re either answer 1-3 questions or doing a short post! 
LINKS HAVE ALSO BEEN PROVIDED FOR FOLLOWING TASKS: https://books.google.com/books?id=XawQAAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_convergence_theory
https://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/introduction/situation_1.shtml#:~:text=There%20are%20no%20universal%20moral,a%20case%20by%20case%20basis.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_imperative
https://guides.lib.umich.edu/fakenews
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoax

Categories of Audience Analysis

https://www.scribophile.com/academy/common-themes-in-literature – Having trouble finding fantasy themes here’s a link! 
Zoom link! -https://youtu.be/ojQOBRc5wDU