Assignment : Persuasive Presentation. For the purpose of this assignment, you have to choose a topic of general public interest on which you will deliver a persuasive presentation. The presentation should be delivered in the form of a manuscript that contains, word for word, the entire presentation. The manuscript should be 1,200-1,500 words (excluding references).
It is very important that the presentation is based on credible evidence. Approximately half of your evidence should be in the form of actual research data (similar to the informative presentation); the other should be in the form of anecdotes, examples, and personal experiences from movies, books, your own life, etc. If you are in doubt about whether the material you have collected is appropriate for the presentation, just ask me via email.
Since this is a persuasive presentation, your presentation should not be value-neutral. On the contrary, the goal is to influence the audience’s attitudes and/or behavior in a particular way. It should be apparent, when reading your presentation, what you hope to achieve with it. It is also important that you explicitly acknowledge and address the most commonly-held objections to your stated position.
You can choose any subject of general public interest; the most important thing, again, is that the entire presentation is based on credible evidence, which is nicely summarized and discussed during the presentation.
The presentation should have an introduction, a main part, and a conclusion. It also should include a bibliography of all the material on which it is based. Here is what you need to do in each part of the presentation:
The Introduction
Introduce the topic of your presentation by explaining its importance and discuss how the rest of your presentation is organized. The presentation should have a logical flow, which is clearly explained and justified.
The Main Part
In the main part of the presentation, you provide a comprehensive and nuanced account of your chosen topic, nicely organized into sub-topics, which you clearly introduce to the listener. It is important that your properly integrate and synthesize the evidence that you discuss instead of simply discussing one individual piece of evidence after the other. The presentation should have a coherent story line and be organized into main points and sub-points. Do not mention the names of researchers, their affiliations, or make any methodological comments. Just focus on the evidence and its significance to the audience. (For example, if the goal of the presentation is to convince the audience of how healthy it is to drink green tea, discuss the various properties of green tea and their mental and physical effects on humans).
The Conclusion
You should end the presentation by briefly summarizing your main points.
The Bibliography
Please include an alphabetized list of all the material on which your presentation is based. Write as the ESL level, thank you
