The Scenario: The President of the Association for Student Wellbeing at Durham Tech has been asked to attend the next closed-door meeting college administration. As a trusted advisor to the President and well-known public speaking consultant on campus, you’ve been asked to help them prepare for this meeting. In an essay/letter of 3-4 pages (double spaced), explain how you would approach:
1) identifying a pressing concern on campus that is appropriate to bring to the administration in this setting
2) helping the President to craft a coherent organization strategy for their presentation
3) helping the President put together a solid argument for what action the administration should consider in response to the issue
4) giving the President advice on what stylistic elements they should consider using to make their speech persuasive
5) what elements of delivery the President should practice to make the speech as effective as possible.
Remember that you are only an advisor to the President. You should not write the speech for them, but you should address each of the points above and justify why your suggestions are important for an effective speech.
The Logistics: You can feel free to access any of your notes, book chapters, or lecture material as you put together your response to this prompt. You should submit your response as a .doc attachment under Assignments on Sakai by 11:55pm on Friday, May 5th. You should adhere to all formatting requirements as stated in the syllabus (12pt font, double spaced, MLA-style). You shouldn’t need to access any outside sources or do any research to answer this prompt, but if you do make use of other sources, please cite them MLA-style in a works cited at the end of the paper. You do not need to formally cite information from class lectures or the textbook for the purposes of this paper unless quoting directly (in which case please do indicate the lecture title or page number).