34.3: Informative Speech- Assignment
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Informative Speech Assignment
Second graded speech: Social Justice in your community
For this speech assignment you will identify a social justice topic that interests you. According to the Oxford reference website, social justice is defined as, “The objective of creating a fair and equal society in which each individual matters, their rights are recognized and protected, and decisions are made in ways that are fair and honest.”
Some broad categories of social justice include reducing economic inequality and injustices relating to race, gender, and environment. In Chicago we can look at the criminal justice system, housing or redlining, pollution in poorer communities, the impact of gentrification, food deserts, gun violence and many more issues. From your own experience, you may have experienced social injustice. This may be the starting place for a speech that matters to you and will inform and educate your audience. An informative speech does not persuade, it teaches the audience about the chosen idea.
Speech Requirements:
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The speech will be 5-7 minutes
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The speech will have a clear introduction, body and conclusion.
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The body will have three main points.
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The speech will include three sources, two specific to Chicago which will be cited out loud during the speech and clearly identified in the body of the outline and in the corresponding works cited page.
Each speech will have ONE social justice issue at its heart. You cannot identify all the injustices in the world in one speech. You must narrow your focus so you can adequately inform your audience in the given time frame. If you go under or over the time requirements, it will impact your grade. The main points are completely up to you. You may choose to identify one social justice topic and identify three examples in Chicago. Or you could identify one social justice topic and identify the history and present of that issue. Or anyway that makes sense to you in the context of your social justice topic. The following are examples but these are just examples and you are encouraged to be creative in how you identify your three main points.
Topic: Redlining
General purpose: To inform
Specific purpose: To inform the audience about redlining in Chicago
Central idea (thesis) statement: Redlining is a way to keep minorities from achieving generational wealth and can be seen in past and current practices in the city of Chicago
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What is redlining and how it impact Chicago
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The past history of redlining in Chicago and who was impacted
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The current use of redlining in Chicago and how it is accomplished.
Topic: Gentrification
General purpose: To inform
Specific purpose: To inform the audience about gentrification in Chicago
Central idea (thesis) statement: Gentrification has changed the face of three specific Chicago neighborhoods: Pilsen, Uptown and Bronzeville.
During the speech, you are expected to cite three sources out loud. These are REAL sources that you will have previously turned in to me so that I may review them. Two of the sources need to be specific to Chicago, whether written or posted by a local media entity or by a national source but about Chicago. Statistics, examples, testimony should have a Chicago perspective and I will check all of your sources.
Use of Artificial Intelligence in creating this speech. AI continues to evolve and is a tool that can be used in some aspects of your speech creation. While you should not use AI to “create” sources or personal examples for your use, you can use it to help you identify topics, main points and help you with phrasing of some sentences. You do need to cite your use of AI in your speech. Each chat prompt is unique so you cannot cite it in traditional ways. The APA has developed some guidelines on how to cite this. You can find that information here. Your outline will need to include a very specific discussion of how you used AI to create the speech and during the speech, you will need to cite your use of AI out loud. This does NOT count as one of your three required sources. Any outline and speech that is found to be 50% or more created by Chat GPT will be returned for a rewrite. It is a TOOL, not the whole speech.
AI is a tool but the speech has a personal component that AI can not truthfully supply. If you are a victim of social injustice, that story or example needs to come from you and be crafted using your own words, memories and experiences. The computer is not a substitute for your unique soul and voice. If you have an interest in social justice, that needs to come directly from you. During the introduction, you will begin with an attention-getter but you will supply your reason for sharing this topic as part of your credibility statement. That should be written entirely by you. Anything requiring sources or personal experience should be wholly crafted by you.
Tip for using AI: While you can use it, you need to make sure your own abilities are represented in the writing. If you use AI in creating your speech, go through and identify words that you do not know. Look them up and make sure you know how to pronounce the words. Most online dictionaries have a tool to help with pronunciation. If the word is not easy for you to say, use an online thesaurus to identify a synonym that is more to your liking. Inability to correctly pronounce a word will negatively impact your credibility. Public speaking is different from writing and sometimes Chat GPT creates complicated sentences which are not appropriate for a listening audience. Make sure that your audience will be able to follow your words easily. So while you may use SOME part of a sentence, you will likely not use the whole sentence because it would not be appropriate for a spoken speech.
social justice. Oxford Reference. Retrieved 15 May. 2024, from https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100515279.