Megan Grimes Rhetoric Blog

1. Question that relates to you audience to get them engaged. 2. Story about your topic. 3. Stats

Title: Gap Year between high school senior and freshman in college Introduction Hook: How many of you have changed your major or have thought about changing it?  Problem: What are you going to do with your life? Are you going to love the job you chose at age 17 or 18? That is a lot of pressure on a high school student. If I switch my major, how far does that set me back? These are all questions we ask ourselves as high school and college students. Many of us have heard that gap years are a negative thing. Gap years are not negative, but a way to solidify your decisions.  Definition of gap year -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Justification: Benefits of gap year Learn responsibilities at a different level before college more impressive application reduce debt recharge after high school Possible negatives of gap year put a year behind Lose all your high scho...

1. Extortion +introduced the topic well. +discusses the solution in detail. -gets a little confusing with the money cost. -targets students and their parents, some parents do not pay for their children's college. Off-campus purchases +introduce the problem well +have all three things needed (problem, solution, justification) -only focus on women, when they could bring men to the audience as well. -the university would be losing money out of this deal Nuclear Power +good evidence +addresses counter-arguements -brief introduction of the problem -costs 1. Nuclear Power 2. Extortion 3. Off-campus purchases

According to dictionary.com a gap year is a period, typically an academic year, taken by a student as a break between secondary school and higher education. Many students go to college right after they graduate from high school not knowing what they want to do with their life. Many students change their major their first year to years of college. This could add more schooling or more work in the long run, if you do not stick in your first or second major chosen. More students should take a gap year to figure out what they want to do for the rest of their life and could possibly travel or work before going to college to get some experience. I chose this topic because I never really heard of a gap year that people actually take them. My advisor asked if I wanted to take a gap year between undergraduate and graduate college. I do not think gap years are necessary in-between undergraduate and graduate, but should be highly recommended for graduated high school students should take a ...

This is a persuasive speech and the class is the target audience. We need to provide a solution to the problem we are presenting and the solution needs to be the most effective way to address the problem. The steps to this speech is to introduce the topic, address the solution to your problem, and then explain why that solution is the best option. In addition to the speech, we must write a reflection on how you are going to plan out this speech, which is kind of like an outline. The speech must be 5-8 minutes long and a clear and relevant topic to this specific audience. Some questions after reading the speech outline are about the topic. How specific does the topic have to be and does it have to do something regarding college?