PERSUASIVE SPEECH PRACTICE OUTLINE



PERSUASIVE SPEECH PRACTICE OUTLINE

SPECIFIC PURPOSE : To convince my audience to become organ donors. (actuate)

THESIS : To become an organ donor is an important decision not only for you, but for the thousands of people waiting to receive an organ, allowing you to save a life.

THEME (optional):

INTRODUCTION

1. Attention getter: Have you all ever thought of what the very best gift you could ever give to someone or receive? What about the gift of life? I want to talk to you all about becoming an organ donor.

2. Relate topic to audience: Can you imagine yourself or a loved one in critical conditions and the only thing in the way of a simple fix of a new organ is a long waiting list? If you or anyone you know have been in that position, you can understand how unfair and disheartening it feels. An easy to solution to shortening that waiting list, is to increase the amount of organ donors.

3. Establish your credibility: When I was in high school, a speaker came to our school to discuss organ donation. After that, as soon as I turned 18 I became an organ donor and I have been a strong advocate for it ever since.

4. Preview your specific purpose/call to action and main points: Many people don’t think a lot of becoming an organ donor, simply because they don’t know enough about it. So I want to talk about how organ donation works, what some arguments against it are, and how and why you all should become organ donors to hopefully convince you to become an organ donor.

BODY

I. How it works

a. It’s a strict and stable system: UNOS website

b. What organs can be donated –list on powerpoint

c. Brain death must be determined

i. By 2 doctors, one neurologist

ii. Show criteria for brain death on powerpoint

1. Irreversible absence, NOT A COMA,

2. You can legally call this death

iii. Hospital notifies organization

1. In TN it is the Tennessee Donor Services

a. Representative goes to the hospital

iv. They alert the hospital of the next recipient on the list (UNOS)

v. A surgeon from that hospital flies with a team to get the organ, and flies back to do to the transplant

TRANSITION: Now that you have a general overview of how it works, here are some popular arguments against organ donation.

II. Arguments

a. Doctors won’t work hard to save you if you are an organ donor

i. As mentioned previously, brain death has a set of criteria

ii. No benefit of the doctor to get the organ

iii. That doctor is not involved at all in the process.

1. A representative from the organ donation service would handle everything between the patient declared as brain dead, to a surgeon flying in to remove the organ

iv. No one but the organ donation service knows who is next on the list

v. From

b. Organ donation vs. donating body to science

i. Completely different, you can specify how you want your organs to be used.

ii. Mark on back on ID has nothing to do with research, and you can always talk to your family about your specific wishes

c. Open casket problems

i. Only a problem if there is a lot of trauma. Scars can be covered, just like autopsy scars.

d. Rich and famous go to top list automatically

i. Financial status is not considered in list arrangement. It is solely based on the medically necessity of the patient. The more severely they need it, the higher they are on the list.

TRANSITION: As you can see, the reasons why people choose not to donate organs are usually because of misconceptions.

III. How you can help and why you should

a. In the US, about 18 people die everyday waiting for an organ, every 10 minutes a new name is added to the national organ waiting list. What is even more shocking than these statistics is that just one organ donor can save up to 8 lives.

1. From New York Organ Donor Network

b. The whole process is free, and it is easy to become an organ donor

1. Register

a. ID, at DMV, online

2. Tell your loved ones, doctor, faith leader

CONCLUSION

1. Review main points/arguments: Now that you have the facts, you can see how important it is. The process of organ donation and transplantation is very strict and the system is durable. There are no loopholes, and the pros to organ donation highly out weigh the cons.

2. Restate specific purpose/call to action—“What do you want them to do?”

a. show TDS website on powerpoint

b. Register at DMV, simply mark it on the back of your ID!

c. Most importantly, inform others about it, many people don’t even think about this.

3. Memorable statement By being an organ donor you can give the ultimate gift. It’s literally a gift of life. No one wants or should have to live in sickness waiting for an organ that has no use in a brain dead body anymore. So if you are not an organ donor, I hope I at least gave you some things to think about. It’s the opportunity for you to give life, even in death

BIBLIOGRAPHY (complete citations. 4 minimum)

“Organ .” Donate the Gift of Life. Web. 23 March 2014.

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“Organ Donation Myths” Mayoclinic. Web. 23 March 2014.

“Tennessee Donor Services” TDS. Web 23 March 2014.

“Brain Death: What does it mean?” About Surgery. Web. 24 March 2014.

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