Videos: Compare Organizational Strategies

Students should take time to watch each of the videos below. The video information will help students identify the important elements of each organizational strategy in persuasive speaking. Although we will be using Monroe's Motivated Sequence for your speaking assignment it helps to compare and contrast these approaches.

Examining Toulmin's Model	Examining Monroe's Motivated Sequence Mode

Working Outlines

Examples of Working Outlines

Below are 2 working outlines; one using Toulmin's Model and the other using Monroe's Motivated Sequence.

Each working outline includes source citations of the same 3 research sources, however, the pattern and presentation of the sources/information is different based on the organizational pattern/style.

Toulmin's Model- Working Outline

Topic: Consequences of foreign aid cuts
General Purpose: To persuade
Specific Purpose: To persuade the audience to believe why the United States should not make cuts to foreign aid.
Central Idea (Thesis/Claim): The United States should not make cuts to foreign aid as it can result in negative consequences to our country and others.

Introduction: Attention getter; Thesis; Audience Relevance; Credibility; Preview of main points.

Evidence 1 with warrant: In Global Citizen, writer Phineas Rueckert's article, "The Details of Trump's Proposed Foreign Aid Cuts Are Devastating," published in April, 2017, provides explicit details on how foreign aid will be cut by "roughly 25% in total" and how it would affect several foreign aid organizations negatively. These organizations falling economically will hurt the lives they are trying to protect.

Evidence 2 with warrant: According to Nurith Aizenman's National Public Radio article, "Trump's Proposed Budget Would Cut $2.2 Billion From Global Health Spending," published in May, 2017, these budget cuts would hold an enormous impact especially on women and children as the family planning services are what would be most affected. Women and children will be left more vulnerable as the largest amount of the cuts will be made to the family planning services.

Evidence 3 with warrant: Melinda Gates, who is the co-chair of the Bill and Melinda GatesFoundation, published a USA Today article in April, 2017, "Foreign aid cuts hurt millions," mentioning what's at stake with the president's' proposed foreign aid cuts and how many countries, including Indonesia, will be heavily affected. Most of the countries that are helped by US foreign aid will suffer because their main source of aid is being taken away, or at the very least being dwindled.

Conclusion: Signal for close; review of main points; clincher

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Monroe's Motivated Sequence- Working Outline

Topic: Consequences of foreign aid cuts
General Purpose: To persuade
Specific Pupose: To persuade the audience to believe why the United States should not make cuts to foreign aid.
Central Idea (Thesis/Claim): The United States should not make cuts to foreign aid as it can result in negative consequences to our country.

Attention Stage: According to Nurith Aizenman's National Public Radio article, "Trump's Proposed Budget Would Cut $2.2 Billion From Global Health Spending," published in May, 2017, we only use 1% of the federal budget on foreign aid, imagine what it would do to poor countries that need our help if major cuts were made to it, making the percentage even lower.

Need Stage: We need to maintain our foreign aid budget to keep programs that our country's organizations support, as well as other international organizations. As indicated in the NPR article, "there is longstanding bipartisan support for global health speading."

Satisfaction Stage: By eliminating cuts to the foreign aid budget we can maintain our 8.7 billion dollar budget that support key programs. Maintaining the budget will keep funds for foreign aid distribution and avoid impacting some of the world's most vunerable people, as reported by the online citizens movement, Globel Citizen, in April 2017.

Visualization Stage: The cuts in the foreign aid budget could have severe negative world impact. In May 2017 NPR reported findings from Guttmacher Institute that calculated the reduction in foreign aid would result in a world impact of, "3.3 million more abortions, 15,000 more maternal deaths, 8 million more unintended pregnancies, and 26 million fewer women and couples receiving services per year."

Action Stage: We need to keep our foreign aid funding, however, during the uncertain times of our nation's legistlative processes, I ask for you to make a donation to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. To make a donation visit, www.gatesfoundation.org/Get-Involved/Foundation-Cares (Links to an external site.). If you are unable to make a donation, then I ask you sign the petion to keep our foreign aid budget by visiting www.globalcitizen.org (Links to an external site.).