What About You? Informative or Persuasive?

Chapter . What About You? Informative or Persuasive?

Quiz

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Informative or Persuasive?

Speakers sometimes have a hard time clarifying the general purpose of their presentation topic. Does the speech intend to impart information (informative speech) or to suggest a change in attitudes, belief, or behavior (persuasive speech)? Consider the speech topics that follow, marking “I” for those that seem informative and “P” for those that could be persuasive.

Question

1. How therapy dogs are trained

2. Why you should add omega fatty acids to your diet

3. How omega fatty acids modulate inflammatory responses

4. Title IX harms male athletes and eliminates important programs

5. Why you should become an organ donor

6. The importance of restricting handguns

7. How fracking works

8. The benefits of volunteer reading programs for at-risk children

9. How to cut the cable cord

10. Why athletic scholarships should be banned

Results

what about you?

Informative or Persuasive?

I

1. How therapy dogs are trained

P

2. Why you should add omega fatty acids to your diet

I

3. How omega fatty acids modulate inflammatory responses

P

4. Title IX harms male athletes and eliminates important programs

P

5. Why you should become an organ donor

P

6. The importance of restricting handguns

I

7. How fracking works

I

8. The benefits of volunteer reading programs for at-risk children

I

9. How to cut the cable cord

P

10. Why athletic scholarships should be banned