SPCM 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Eye Contact, 2-Step Garage, Rhetorical Question

• School: CSU
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: SPCM 200
• Professor: Cramer Mc Ginty

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Civic engagement- being involved in your community and politics: important because the community"s decisions can directly affect you. Presenting on: day 2- april 11th (going 3rd) Should be made legal in all states and prevent individual states from making it illegal. 6-8 min speech, 2-3 mins of questions from audience (8-11 mins total) Persuade audience of a solution to a public problem. Highly recommend that you do don"t come up with your own public policy, but advocate for an existing legislation. Think about what level of policy you are advocating for: national, state-wide, city-wide. You need to address the need, plan, and practicality: 1. Need: what is the problem? (should be the first part of your speech: 2. Plan: how do you propose to solve the problem: 3. Address people who don"t agree with you: make your audience care about what you"re talking about!