SS238-4: Analyze the intersection of civic engagement and public policy.
GEL-4.03: Understand patterns of human behavior based upon real world observation.
Give me liberty or give me death!
–Patrick Henry
Imagine that you are in a dusty, crowded community center. Room 4A. People, more than you imagined, sit in those ubiquitous, collapsible seats. Many more stand back against the wall. Many, many individuals hold handbills you passed out regarding your public policy concern. Equally eager and nervous you stand in front of the lectern. Now, you think…now I am ready You click on the microphone, examine your prepared speech about your public policy concern, and you begin to speak with eloquence and passion!
An important component of civic engagement is citizen recruitment to your public policy concern. One way to generate increased citizen recruitment is by using an effective, persuasive speech on your policy concern
A persuasive speech is a type of speech when the speaker seeks to convince an audience based on a spoken argument. Persuasive speeches are composed of three components: an appeal to logic, an appeal to emotion, and an appeal to credibility.
An appeal to logic is when you persuade an audience with reason.
Example: Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
–Abraham Lincoln
An appeal to emotion is when you elicit an emotional response from the audience.
Example: Yesterday, December 7th, 1941a date which will live in infamythe United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
–Franklin D. Roosevelt
An appeal to credibility is when the speakers status or authority on the subject persuades the audience.
Example: Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy, I knew Jack Kennedy, Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you are no Jack Kennedy.
–Lloyd Bentsen
Source: (Learning, n.d.)
U.S. history contains some extraordinarily powerful speeches. From Patrick Henrys Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death speech to Ronald Reagans Tear Down This Wall speech, great oration significantly affects public policy (NCC, 2017). Among the greatest of these speeches is Martin Luther King Jrs I have a Dream Speech. Newsweek, an American news magazine, has the video of the speech, and The New York Times published an excellent analysis.
Directions: Compose a 400 word transcript of your public policy speech.
Select a specific example of public policy from one of the following fields:
Economic policy
An example of economic policy is U.S. budget deficit spending.
Education policy
An example of education policy is the implementation of national education standards.
Environmental policy
An example of environmental policy is the Clean Air Act.
Foreign policy
An example of foreign policy is how we conduct trade with other countries.
Healthcare policy
An example of healthcare policy is the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)
Welfare policy
An example of welfare policy is Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF).
Write a brief speech advocating for citizen involvement concerning a current public policy issue.
Using public policy analysis – include the following:
State the public policy concern.
Discuss possible policy solutions.
Include either a logical, emotional, and/or credibility appeal.
State your chosen, public policy solution.
Include either a logical, emotional, and/or credibility appeal.
Support your examples with information from the text and at least two, additional academic sources.
Correct grammar and syntax.
APA format.
Requirements
This assessment should be a minimum of 400 words of text.
Introductory paragraph
APA formatting (including in-text citations and a separate Reference Page following the narrative)
Conclusion
Three sources (including a class resource and two additional outside sources)
If work submitted for this competency assessment does not meet the minimum submission requirements, it will be returned without being scored.
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