A6310 Section A 49482019 周明慧 Speech Plan No.3

Audience Adaptation Plan

Audience attitude: When I asked some housewives' comments on buying organic vegetables, their responses were all the same—the prices for organic vegetables were too high for them. However, when I asked them to think more about organic vegetables, not only on the prices, they all had the same response again—organic vegetables are definitely more healthy and better than common vegetables. There was news revealing pesticide used on common vegetables causes both environmental pollutions and human diseases, but people including housewives were awareless of this, so do they treat the greenhouse warming. Therefore, I put my topic in convincing my audience that organic products are exactly better than others by showing some statistic data and official reports, arousing their attentions on my topic. The most important is that I want my audience to know their tiny simple action can also help protecting environment, to let them know they also can have the power to protect earth.

 

Reasons: I believe the three reasons can convince audience that their tiny behaviors are able to change the world. These three reasons are close to us, since we live on the same earth, all need to eat for live, and fear the environment getting polluted.

 

Selecting an organization to meet audience needs: Comparing organic vegetables with common vegetables, I let my audience to figure out which one is better for themselves. To be frank, they have no choice but start to consider my suggestions.

 

Outline

Title: Organic Agricultural Products

Specific goal: I want my audience to start purchasing organic agricultural products because there are three advantages to buy organic vegetables

 

Introduction: Based on the price policy, many people think they will never buy organic vegetables, for its price is more than 30% higher than common vegetables. Some house-wives also tell that they will never buy organic vegetables, since there are so many warms and caterpillars in it, and it looks not "pretty" enough. However, in the reality, if they do not choose organic one, they probably pay more in their future days.

 

Thesis Statement: Ejecting common vegetables and choosing organic ones have three advantages: to reduce the pollution resulted from the chemical fertilizer and insecticide, to prevent people from absorbing unnecessary and harmful pesticide, and to force farmers to reuse kitchen waste as organic fertilizer.

 

Body:

1. Choosing organic vegetables can help to reduce the pollution resulted from the chemical fertilizer and insecticide.

A. Common vegetable planted by using insecticide leads to air, soil, water, and other pollution; in addition, combination of insecticide and fertilizers produce N2O and CH4, greenhouse gas.

B. Organic farmers were forced to use organic fertilizers and forbidden using insecticide, which helps environment protection.

 

(Transition: Our choice can help environment protection, but how about ourselves? Can our choice help us?)

 

2. Choosing organic vegetables can prevent people from absorbing harmful pesticide.

A. People having meals with pesticide, even just few of it, can result in getting chronicle diseases.

B. Organic vegetables planted without pesticide, those consumers never worry about the danger of poison from eating vegetables.

 

(Transition: Organic vegetables can help to protect environment and our body. Do you know what makes them?)

 

3. Choosing organic vegetables can make farmers reuse kitchen waste as a organic fertilizer.

A. Reusing kitchen waste can help to reduce the amount of garbage and make incinerators more effective, and avoid infectious disease spreading through garbage and its polluted water.

B. Using kitchen waste as an organic fertilizer is another solution to save the resource wasting problem.

 

Conclusion: Even though people might think organic vegetables are more expensive than common vegetables, they possibly pay more than the price until they buy organic vegetables. Since nowadays agriculture tends to use artificial fertilizers and pesticide that cause pollution and harm the earth, people have to pay more to make up the damage from their indirect mistake, paying not only money, even life.

 

Sources:

1. Interview my mother, grandmother, aunts, and neighbors.
2. Visiting supermarket.
3. 《2007國際回顧 農業污染帶來危機 永續農業的挑戰》吳萃慧2007.11.29 <http://www.peopo.org/portal.php?op=viewPost&articleld=9631>
4. 《藍藻事件是人禍 農業污染是主因》張莉2007.06.14 <http://env.people.

      com.cn/BIG5/5866793.html>

5. 《2.3億普查農業污染》星島日報 2007.12.13 <http://news.sina.com,hk/

      cgi-bin/nw/show/32/1/1/580465/1.html>

6. 《農業部門溫室氣體清冊》中央研究院< http://webgis.sinica.edu.tw/epa

/epa.html>

7. 《廚餘回收》台塑環保科技公司<http://www.ctcc.com.tw/?action=webpage

&bid=14>

8. "Chemical Fertilizer or Organic Fertilizer." Ecochem. <http://www.ecochem.

      com/t_faq9.html>

9. 《一起加入有機吧！》台灣地球日 <http://www.earthday.org.tw/dosome

      thing/dosomething12.htm>

 

 

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A6310 Section A 49482019 Selene Chow 周明慧

National Taipei University

Dept. Foreign Languages and Applied Linguistics

Class: English Speech Section A

No. 49482019

Name: Selene Chow 周明慧

Personal Experience

Speech Plan

Topic: Being Freaky—Thinking Critically

1. 1. How relevant will the audience find this material to be?

According my speech, my audience would likely to think it as relevant. Because we are all college students, thinking critically is an important ability to build us up.

2. 2. How can I make it easier for audience members to comprehend the information I will share?

In order to arousing my audience's attention, my speech is adapted to a more interesting talking way than a moral teaching style. Hope it to achieve a much effective and meaningful speaking to my audience.

3. 3. What common ground do audience members share with each other and with me?

As a college student, thinking critically is a basic element. Standing on the same ground, as college students, it is obvious to us that we have to think critically.

4. 4. What I can do to enhance my credibility?

Add a true event which has happened before to make my idea and experience more credible.

5. 5. What is my audience's initial attitude toward my speech topic likely to be?

At the beginning, my audience probably feels funny about my topic.

6. 6. What language or culture differences do audience members have with each other and with me?

Using a second language to delivery my speech, I would like to avoid my experience-telling speech from sounding weird because my experience has happened in a Chinese-spoken country, not an English society. Using the proper adjectives and adverbials to describe and to produce my speech can be an essential works.

Speech Outline

Specific goal:

I would like to share with the audience about my experience, in the process of understanding the importance of the personal judgmental and critical thinking.

Introduction:

I. Because of the uninterrupted examinations in our earlier school life, we were accustomed to keep finding the only one answer. However, it seems to be a meaningless behavior in our growing process.

II. Everyone must face such a situation, not knowing what the truth is and which is correct, not knowing how to choose, but we still make our own decisions in the end.

III. However, how can we know our decision is right, is correct, is good for us?

(Till now, I still cannot confidently tell how to estimate my own decisions that I have done in these years.)

Thesis statement:

One of the priceless elements to build up a college student is the ability to have the personal judgmental and critical thinking.

Body:

I. When I was a freshman in elementary school, I had a very "unique" classmate for his particular behavior. There were some very freaky ideas exited in his head, our teacher never accepted and understood.

II. (One day, we had a simple mathematic quiz.)

A. An example: the simple arithmetic quiz

1. the question on the paper and his answer

2. his argument with our teacher

3. his nickname

B. His lasted shocking news

(This person or, I have to say this news effects me a lot, even though I do not check it is a credible news or just a made-up message. If this news is true, the freak in Taiwan really becomes a genius in America.)

III. I cannot help but start to ask myself why the freak can be so "successful," and why I am still a student whose biggest goal is to find the correct answer on the exam paper.

A. After few months, I become an undergraduate, some thing happens when I take the first class in my new school.

(I am shocked, for there is no more only-one-and-correct answer in college.)

B. I start to understand and also accept that everyone's creativity is from our unpredictable thoughts and imagination when we are answering the professor's question. When I start to answer professor's question, I know I can do better than before. This explorative thinking is absent before, now I find it and take it back.

(I can be another "freak," for I also have my unpredictable and unexpected answers.)

Conclusion:

Therefore, being freaky from time to time is not really a bad thing. Everyone should try to have you own unpredictable and unexpected answers to anyone's questions.

Sources: my own experience