Post a video of your formal informative speech. Double-check the video after you post it to ensure that it works.

Informative Speech: Formal Speech #1 of 2 The informative and persuasive speeches will be delivered on the same topic. Your first step will be to select a question of fact, value, or policy for the persuasive speech. Choose a topic in which you hold a sincere interest, because you will spend much of this course working on it. Ensure that the topic you select has at least two sides or perspectives. Visit Opposing Viewpoints on the JWU Library Database homepage for a list of possible topics. The goal of this speech is to inform your audience about the facts, history, or other relevant details surround a question of fact, value, or policy. In the next speech, you will advocate a change in your audience’s thinking or behavior. For example, if you wanted to persuade us in the persuasive speech that Congress should lift the Cuban trade embargo, you would brief us in the informative speech on the historical background of the trade embargo. Just to be clear: the purpose of this speech is to inform the audience about all relevant information surrounding a question of fact, value, or policy, not information that supports your position. You are not persuading the audience in any way in this speech. Your speech will include two to four main points. How you organize your information into the main points will be driven by the research that you find. Your main points should clearly demonstrate a chronological, spatial, thematic or topical order. Length: 4-5 minutes. Harmonize has a 5-minute limit. You will need to careful that your speech does not exceed 5 minutes. Outlines: You will turn in both a preparation outline and a speaking outline. Your preparation outline must include a works cited page in MLA format. Research: Minimum of four (4) sources. You will cite your sources orally during your speech delivery and in written form on your preparation outline. Visual Aids: Optional. Delivery: The speech must be delivered extemporaneously. You will use your speaking outline. Persuasive Speech: Formal Speech #2 of 2 The persuasive speech will be on the same topic as the informative one. Since you already delivered your informative speech, the audience should have a basic understanding of your topic; this will enable you to persuade them without having to provide extensive background on the subject. The purpose of this speech is to persuade the audience to take action regarding a change in fact, value, or policy. Select a fact, value, or policy that you believe should be changed; the fact, value, or policy may exist at the university, local, state, national, or international level. In order for your argument to be effective, you must be able to: ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ identify the specific body that would make the change demonstrate a reasonable need for the change demonstrate that the potential for change exists link the impact of the policy change to your audience Avoid trivial topics that you cannot relate to the audience in a reasonable way. Length: 4-5 minutes. Harmonize has a 5-minute limit. You will need to careful that your speech does not exceed 5 minutes. Outlines: You will turn in both a preparation outline and a speaking outline. Your preparation outline must include a works cited page in MLA format. Research: Minimum of five (5) sources (including at least three new sources). You will cite your sources orally during your speech and in written form on your preparation outline. Visual Aids: Minimum of three visuals required. Visuals do not have to be digital. Physical objects and displays are acceptable. Delivery: The speech must be delivered extemporaneously. You will use your speaking outline.