PERSUASIVE PRESENTATION

Often, one must persuade an audience to act. This requires the presenter to speak to the history of the presentation topic, as wellas consider how best to persuade their audience to take the action suggested. If you find it helpful, you may wish to create an outline to help you prepare for your presentation.

Selected topic: The dangers of using a cell phone while driving.

Create an 8- to 10-slide Microsoft^® PowerPoint^® presentation with accompanying visuals and narration that does the following:

• Summarizes the topic and the effect of the issue on the community
• Proposes a solution or plan of action that addresses the selected issue or event, while including a balanced summary of potential audience responses in order to best persuade everyone to action
• Includes visual aids and outside resources
• Uses effective language to persuade your audience

Answer preview

• Using cell phones while driving expose the driver to fatal accidents
• Using cell phones during driving reduces the driver’s attention and fails to concentrate
• The vision, perception, and the general awareness of the driver is distracted
• The advantage of avoiding the use of cell phone while driving is ensuring the safety of the driver and those around
• However, drivers still ignore the caution of the dangers of using cell phones while driving

(10 slides)