Now we are looking forward to our final challenge of the term. Hopefully by now, we have had several opportunities to see what people do well, what makes good speeches and presentations, and reflect on our own strengths and weaknesses.
As always, the first and very important step to high quality speaking is identifying a specific purpose. For this final group presentation, you have to decide on your purpose, to inform or persuade. And then clearly the next question is: Persuade Or Inform... about what?
The same considerations are at play: Who is your audience? What will be relevant for them? What do you need to do to achieve your purpose?
For this post, this is a first chance to propose a topic and purpose. With this post, you can also see what other groups are planning to do, so you want to differentiate yourselves from others to be unique and memorable. And remember the theme: Living in Uncertain Times.
Please introduce your topic idea. Generally, what is the idea? Explain it briefly, and then state your Specific Purpose: We want to inform / persuade our audience that...
Only 1 group member needs to make this post, but please include all group members' ID numbers in the post. Please also include your Section #. I will be responding to each post to give preliminary feedback. Of course groups can change their minds about topic ideas after this post, but it is best to make this decision as early as possible. Aj. M
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ReplyDeleteShould we educate young citizens about politics in Thailand?
- to make sure that’s our youth citizen will have enough knowledge for the election and further events that involves with the politics.
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DeleteThis is interesting. It seems like the answer should absolutely be "yes." Right? So on one hand, it seems to me that this is not debatable. But in the Thai context, maybe it is. I would want to know why anyone would disagree with educating young people about democracy. You will need to explain the context.
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ReplyDeleteLinkage to the theme: Living in uncertain time-as children are in the technological area, they are exposed to technology early as 6 years old. The future improvement in technology is allowing children to have access to more devices.
Although it may be useful for parents to use it, as we don’t know the full potential of technology, it’s important to have a distinction in this uncertain times
Our general purpose is to persuade. Our idea talks about how children these day own their personal devices such as iPad, however the use of technology could abused a child’s physically and mentally.
For example, when a kid cries, an iPad is handed. We will argue, it’s not the right thing to do.
Therefore, our specific purpose is to persuade our audience that pre-teen should not have right to use technology.
I think you're on your way. I'm curious who your target audience is for this topic. Is this a topic for parents? Is this about the best "policy" for parenting children?
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ReplyDeleteOur specific purpose is business opportunities are opened for those who prepare well during uncertain time like crisis. It is often thought that business and economic will face hard time in the time of crisis, however, for those who have prepare themselves , it could be golden time for them.
So it is not clear at this point if it is an informative speech or a persuasive one. Is this informative about how businesses properly prepare for a crisis?
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DeleteYes, it is an informative speech on business during crises
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ReplyDeleteSpecific purpose: To persuade the audience that children should prioritise job satisfaction over salary.
In the Thailand context, most of the time, children need to choose whether what they like or what’s best for them based on traditional belief i.g. parents’ advice. In the continuously changing world, everything is uncertain. Jobs come and go. We believe learning what we like is better at the end of the day.
This works well, and it is highly relevant to your audience. For many of your classmates, this is a very confusing issue. We want to follow our passions, but at the same time, family expectations and other pressures make money a priority.
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Topic idea:
During the pandemic, it has become clear that economies of countries like Thailand that rely heavily on tourism, are not as resilient as originally thought. Businesses and individuals that depend on tourism to make a living have been impacted heavily. Beaches are deserted, hotels lack residents and markets like Chatuchak have become ghost towns. Following the pandemic, Thailand could rebuild their economy to what it once was, but perhaps there is potential for something much greater. We believe that by shifting the economy towards one that is less dependent on tourism and strengthening it in other ways, Thailand can use the pandemic as an opportunity to grow, become more self-reliant, and to restructure its tourism industry.
Specific purpose:
To persuade our audience that Thailand should shift towards an economy that is less reliant on tourism.
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This works well as a question of policy. This is good at this moment in time as we try to imagine what a post-pandemic Thailand will look like. A new normal? Or business as usual?
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Topic: Asian hate crime
In the past decades, more and more Asian Americans have been attacked even though they have nothing to do with the attacker but mind their own business. This crime has drastically increases throughout the States and one of the shocking cases is done to an old Thai man leading him to death. This highly leads our awareness to this issue and we want to let everyone knows why it happen, how it affects Asians living in America and America and what has been done to address this issue and how we can help raise awareness.
Specific purpose: To inform audiences about the reason behind those crimes, impacts towards Asian American and American’s economy and the solution that has been made to address this issue.
This is an interesting topic. And an alarming development. The challenge for you is the giving your audience a "reason to listen." You will need to establish relevance to your audience regarding what it is happening in America. Work to answer this question.
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Topic: Should libraries be replaced with unlimited access to e-books?
E-books are easily accessible and low budget. E-book access is completely at our fingertips, we could search, choose, buy, and read whenever and wherever we want. They are available 24/7, easily searchable by readers, and provide an easy way to download without any struggle.
However, books and libraries are always a pleasing experience. A library is a place where anytime we can go to read a vast collection of books in various fields. It is a completely beautiful experience to go to a library, feel the texture of each book, smell them, the occasional feeling of bookmarking a book, and many more are never irreplaceable. For many of us, books are also a form of decoration. Having a small library spot with a wonderful collection is always eye-pleasing.
Therefore, our purpose is to persuade the audience that libraries are a beautiful experience to feel, with existing books to recall the old memories of reading them traditionally.
This is very interesting. A unique topic choice, and I suppose it is a perspective that many in your audience disagrees. Personally, as a lover of libraries, I am excited by your topic, but I wonder if focusing on the "beautiful experience" is going to be the most practical way to approach this. You may not only focus on the experience, but also on more practical matters related to learning, development, and productivity too.
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6380537 Prakun Chaowarat (Pete)
Topic Idea:
Our lives can be accidents and deaths within seconds. What is both convenient and detrimental are cars. There are more and more reckless drivers in Thailand. Road accidents rates tend to go up dramatically every year. It is important we look at the process of getting a driver's license. Getting a driver’s license in Thailand is very easy and anyone can get it without really trying. Because of this, the drivers are less experienced and less prepared for mishaps that can occur when driving. Cars can be very dangerous when not properly used. Therefore regulations and the process of getting a license should be more strict. The law is a duty of the government that needs to be improved, but respectful responsibility on the road should be the norm of everyone.
Specific purpose
To persuade term audience, the driver license test should be more strict and it can reduce the amount of accidents that occurred from careless driving.
This is a consistent problem in this country, a much greater killer than any virus. I have always wondered why it isn't treated as a public health issue, and not just a law enforcement issue. But I wonder how you link this to our theme: Living in Uncertain Times.
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Specific Purpose: To persuade the audience that people should consume local market goods rather than products from convenience store (7-11)
Most people in Thailand tend to prefer convenience store products over local market goods. These days, we can obviously see that the most common convenience store which most of Thai people prefer is 7-11. Existence of 7-11 is causing a low income crisis to local businesses and local people.
I think the topic works. CP is taking over so many parts of our lives, and the beautiful traditions related to markets and local sellers are under threat.
DeleteMake sure that you can justify the link of this topic to the theme for the presentation, living in uncertain times.
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ReplyDeleteTopic: COVID-19 pandemic: The impact on students' academic transition.
General Purpose: To inform
Topic Idea: The pandemic is not only hindering educational opportunities but also making it much more difficult for students to make a transition into university and online learning having to work with fear and uncertainty.
Central Idea: How the pandemic is disrupting students’ academia
Specific Purpose: To inform our audience about the academic uncertainties among senior year students during the COVID-19 pandemic.
You may reconsider. The reason is your entire audience is going through it. There is high risk that you're not saying anything new to your audience.
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ReplyDeleteTopic: world war 2
During the event of war war 2 like the holocaust, people live had changed after that no lives were the same. There are many opportunities and important things missed because of world war 2. The economic was running very low which have direct effect to the whole world.
Purpose: to inform, how to survive and live in a gigantic riot such as the world war 2.
Central idea: how are life change from before to after the war time. People life and economy changed were all altered since then.
I'm curious about this topic. What you need to establish, very importantly, is the relevance to your audience. Are you trying to show parallels between WWII and now? I want to know more about how you link this to our theme for this speech assignment.
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ReplyDeleteCOVID-19 is a mistake made by the Chinese government. The covid virus is spreading for a variety of reasons, and it is affecting economies, societies, and public health in countries all over the world.
What should we do if this issue arises again in the future? What the current pandemic taught us.
What the current pandemic taught us. We’d like to persuade the audience on how to avoid a situation like this by preventing the failure of COVID-19.
Ok, but at this time, the topic idea seems to be unfocused and wide ranging. Is this about government responsibility if an outbreak happens in any particular country? This needs some narrowing in order to work.
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ReplyDeleteIn the contemporaly world, robotic will play a major role in the world. This might come with the new alternative method of medication. It is robotics treatment on human which insert robot parts instead of normal human’s organism to cure people, but who knows that it can affect our life and our worlds in the future.
specific purpose : We want to persuade audiences about the harm of the robotic treatment on human in terms of the bioethics.
I think this works, but I highly recommend that you be specific. Is there a particular robotic part? A particular procedure? A particular harm? Because I expect that the ethics change depending on the procedure. For example, if someone is using technology as a cochlear implant to enable hearing... this may be different from using a robotic limbs like what we see in science fiction movies.
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ReplyDeleteThe COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in every aspect of daily life. Many people are facing financial problems, and are not able to access very basic necessities such as health care, meals, or even happiness. This uncertain event illustrates the value of money and presents that it’s the one and only solution to this issue.
Specific purpose is to persuade our audiences to believe that money is everything during the pandemic of covid19.
Ok. But this isn't so different from the very old argument: Does money buy happiness? Regardless of Covid 19. Is there a way to do this speech in a unique and outstanding way? The topic is at risk of being very common.
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With the ongoing pandemic, many things are disrupted. Teaching and going out is restricted and plans are put on hold or may end. University students are often asked about their plans for the future. After graduating, what will you do? Do you have a plan? It's a wise idea to make a plan for your future, however, we should not strictly stick to it since it could cause more stress to students that already have a lot on their plate. That is why we should not be too hard on ourselves and be flexible with our plans.
Specific purpose: To persuade the audience that we should not stress too much with our plans and we should be flexible.
In general, I am ok with this topic. But... the topic here is very general. I highly recommend that you narrow down so you can be specific in your content. Remember that this is 9-12 minutes, so your content needs to be able to develop.
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ReplyDeleteTopic: Human responses toward the pandemic
Humans have been fighting with the unexpected diseases since historical time until nowadays. Nature is truly enormous as we don’t know everything about it. We only notice it’s existence by the time that the infection has begun. Some happened in a continent and some had spread throughout the world. Each time, we approached the issues differently according to the era, when the amount of knowledge and cultural behavior are opposite to the contemporary period. In our speech, we are going to inform the changes in the ways that humans in the past and the present reacted toward the pandemics.
I expect that this can work, but I imagine that some narrowing is necessary. For example, you're right that there have been several instances of epidemics, and new viruses introduced into the population, but there may be few examples of truly global pandemics (because it is only recently that so many people travel so far and so easily). Work to narrow your focus.
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Topic : Biodiversity loss due to human
Specific purpose : To persuade the audience that human behavior destroy biodiversity therefore we have to lower down the rate.
I think you need to reconsider. This is entirely vague at this point. And from what I can tell, would this be debatable among your audience? Would anyone disagree? If not, it doesn't work as a persuasive speech.
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