Note: Complete all parts of the Meadited Speech Outline. Review relevant readings and lectures on: Audience Analysis, Researching Your Speech, Supporting Materials for Your Speech, Organizing Your Speech, Outlining Your Speech, Mediated Speaking. Also, refer to the “Competency Rubric for Mediated Speech” to understand the instructor’s expectations and grading criteria.
Planning for the Mediated Speech with Analysis
Speech Topic:
International Space Station
Rhetorical Purpose:
To debate whether the international space station is successful.
Audience Analysis:
(Refer to chapters on Audience Analysis & Persuasive Speaking)
Our audience is college students and one professor so we believe that most of them have interested in space. Even though it is the information we might see on the internet but not all of us will spend time exploring more. Our presentation is going to be at the virtual meeting so I believe most of them will be watched.
Persuasive claims:
(refer to chapter on Persuasive Speaking)
We will use fact claims because it is debatable things about good or bad to build an international space station.
Organizational Pattern:
(refer to chapters on Organizing Your Speech & Informative/ Persuasive Speaking)
We will use the categorical pattern. We will separate our presentation into three-part to support our claims.
Message/Methods of Persuasion/Informative Techniques:
(refer to chapter on Methods of Persuasion)
We will use emotional appeals to make the subject matter relatable, rather than having science be an elusive subject matter. In addition, we would use evidence from the credibility website to introduce the information about how to get on the space. We will also use the message to make international space stations more persuasive and vivid; we would use primary sources to describe international stations.
Types of Supporting Materials:
(refer to chapter on Supporting Materials)
Narratives, testimony, and statistics work well for this project due to the fact that it is partly based on history but is also about a scientific undertaking.
Types of Research Sources:
(review “Background Information” for the Speech Research Activity)
Primary and secondary sources. Primary sources such as recordings of astronauts and their testimonials would be useful for keeping the audience’s attention. Secondary sources from NASA and the international space agency would provide solid background information.
Mediated Speech “Formal Outline”
Introduction
Write in complete sentences. Refer to chapter on Outlining Your Speech.
I.
Attention Getter:
The International Space Station (ISS) orbits above our heads every day, but how did it get their, and more importantly, how do YOU get there?
II.
Thesis Statement:
The ISS is a collaboration between many countries to push the limits of human research and technology. Learning how and why the ISS exists will motivate people to support future space research
III.
Connection with Audience:
We are using additive sources to catch the audience’s attention.
IV.
Team’s Credibility:
Avery (group member) is a published astronomer.
V.
Preview of Main Points (how the debate will run):
First we are going to describe the international space station’s history, and the impact of the international Space Station
Mediated Speech “Formal Outline” (contd.)
Body
Write in complete sentences. Important: Include evidence and reasoning and other persuasive appeals in sub-points (refer to source in each sub-point by paraphrasing, quoting, or summarizing with a citation following APA format – 6th edition), and insert transitions between main points. Refer to chapters on Researching Your Speech, Outlining Your Speech, and Informative Speaking Persuasive Speaking, & Methods of Persuasion.
I.
Main Point One:
International space station history
Sub-point A/Pro: (w/source citation, if applicable)
History and timeline of the ISS
https://www.issnationallab.org/about/iss-timeline/
Sub-point B/Con: (w/source citation, if applicable)
Introduce the international space station
https://www.space.com/16748-international-space-station.html
Sub-point C: (w/source citation, if applicable)
The reason they built international space station
Transition:
The benefits for build the international space station
II.
Main Point Two:
How do humans get into space from ISS.
Sub-point A/Pro: (w/source citation, if applicable)
Why humans wanted to get into space.
Sub-point B/Con: (w/source citation, if applicable)
What kind of technology or idea that ISS usually uses.
https://www.issnationallab.org/research-on-the-iss/areas-of-research/technology-development/t.
Sub-point C: (w/source citation, if applicable)
What new technology has been developed on the ISS that can be used on Earth or in future space travel?
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/benefits/innovative_technology
Transition:
After we understand how to get into the space, now we can see what impact ISS has had on the earth and humans.
III.
Main Point Three:
What has been the impact of the international Space Station
Sub-point A/Pro: (w/source citation, if applicable)
We have learned a lot about how life, both humans and plants, survive in space. In a way, the biggest experiment aboard is the astronomers themselves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8ZWjdP74aA
Sub-point B/Con: (w/source citation, if applicable)
Research on states of matter, cosmic particles, and more come from the ISS. numerous projects are conducted every year that cannot be done on earth.
https://artsandculture.google.com/story/6-out-of-this-world-scientific-discoveries-from-the-iss-nasa/6gXhNXno-k5rIA?hl=en
Sub-point C:
(w/source citation, if applicable)
The ISS proves that we, as a united world, can come together to do the impossible, prove that humans from numerous countries can work together and function in space.
Transition:
We can see many benefits from ISS. Technology has been developed and humans life has been improved.