Aidan Leggat

May 16 2018
Persuasive Speech: Audience Assessment
Specific Goal :My audience will agree with my point of view at the end of my presentation and
will understand why mobile devices are not good for relationships
Type of Claim: This is a claim of ___Fact___
Ethos: Primary Ethos:
1. Competence: I am a teenager with a phone and have had relationships before
(romantically or not romantically) and I believe that phones do have a negative impact on
the relationship you have with someone.
2. Fairness : I will state what the counterargument is and the I will refute it by saying the
claim.
Secondary Ethos : I will cite all of my authoritative references out loud at least once in my
speech.
NOTE: A minimum of five references is required in each speech. If you selected a number less
than five, stop now. Go back and find more authoritative references.
Audience Assessment : Most of my audience will be uniformed or favorable to my argument that
mobile devices affect relationships negatively.
Adaptation to Audience Attitude :
1. Common ground : I will express the pros and cons to using a mobile device in
relationships
2. Latitude of acceptance : I feel like the audience will accept my proposition because I will
have study’s and data backing up my points.
Baby Steps : I have made sure that I argue against the counterclaims and that they know what
point I am trying to get across.
Pattern of Organization : my pattern of organization will be refutation
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Persuasive Speech: Full Sentence Outline
Mobile devices affect relationships negatively
Introduction
I. Hook: We all have used phones and we all have had a relationshi[ woth someone, whether
that is your mom, dad, siblings, counsins, boyfriends, girlfriends, etc. But how do those two
connect to each other? Phones are tying relationships together and making them “easier to
connect with someone” but is it really easier to connect with someone through a screen? My
answer is no! Mobile devices affect any relationship negatively.
II. Ethos: I have a family and friends and we all use our phones to contact on another but in
times where we have to talk face to face the phone is just a distraction and we end up being on
our phones more than talking to that specific person.
III. Proposition (or Hint at Proposition) :Mobile devices affect relationships negatively .

IV. Preview :
1 . using a phone to connect with anyone can result in poor conversational skills
2 .A Phone can be distracting when you are with someone
3 . Technology is like a 3rd party to any relationship
4. Mobile devices and give emotional detachment to any relationship
Transition : My first point is that using a phone can result in poor conversational skills
Body
** Include at least five authoritative sources throughout the body of your speech, cited out loud,
and include at least one source in each main point. Bold your sources to make it easy for the
instructor to read.
1. Using a phone too much can result in poor conversational skills
1. When you use a Phone you can become so caught up in it that you only start to
be able to talk through a screen and it can become harder to communicate in real
life with someone because you are so used to talking through a screen.
2. “Their communication is marked by delayed responses, mechanical intonation,
and lack of eye contact; all result in an unintentional misattunement. Gone are
the rhythms of responsiveness and synchronicity of feelings that flow between
partners, hallmarks of satisfying relationships” (Hara Estroff Marano)
Transition: my next claim is that a phone can be distraction when you are with someone
1. Phones can distract you while you are with someone
1. Many times that i have been on a date the guy has pulled out his phone and
been on it but this just one of the distractions.
2. James Roberts the author of Too Much of a Good Thing: Are you Addicted to
your smartphones said, “When one partner constantly checks his or her phone it
sends an implicit message that they find the phone (or what’s on it) more
interesting than you”.
3. “ Geiser (2002) cited in Srivastava (2006) observed couples at restaurant tables
and found many occasions where one partner was taking a call while the other
was texting or looking away. This perhaps shows that relationships on phones
are prioritised at the expense of relationships with people in the surrounding
area” (Emma Seppala).
4. “For instance, a 2014 study from Pew Research indicated that 42 percent of
eighteen- to twenty-nine-year-olds in serious relationships claim that their partner
had been distracted by his or her mobile phone when the couple was spending
time together”
1. Mobile devices can give someone an emotional detachment to the people around them.
1. “McDaniel, a newly minted Ph.D. in human development from Penn State, along
with Sarah Coyne of Brigham Young University, found that the women who
experienced technoference in their relationship also encountered more couple
conflict over tech use and diminished relationship satisfaction.”
2. “
Arguments:
1.Increases frequency in contact between loved ones
2.Can bring people closer together
3. You can interact with people from far away ( long distance contacting)
[ Transition to close:in conclusion mobile devices are like tornados to relationships
1. Summarize main points/thesis:They negatively affect relationships because they…
2. Bookend : [This sentence should loop back to your hook, so your speech does a full
circle. Restate the question, or part of the story, or the stat, etc.]
3. End the speech memorably: [Use quotations, stories, questions, startling statements,
humor, etc.. this statement should make your audience remember your speech. End with
a lasting line(s)]
4. Challenge the audience to respond: [This is a persuasive speech, make sure you ask
something of your audience, ask them in the conclusion what you want them to do or
think after hearing this persuasive speech.]
References:
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