1. What is your persuasive speech topic? What side are you going to be arguing?…

1. What is your persuasive speech topic? What side are you going to be arguing? (for example: “for animal testing” or “against animal testing”).
2. List all counterarguments that oppose your position/claim (your claim is what you are trying to prove or persuade the audience to do or believe).
3. Choose the strongest position against yours and list it here, along with how you will address it in your speech. See your textbook for ideas on how to address counterarguments.
4. Which persuasive speaking organizational pattern will you use to organize your main points? Why did you choose this pattern?
5. How do you plan to use ethos, pathos, and logos in your persuasive speech? Please be as specific as possible and write about all three (ethos, pathos and logos). For example: “I will appeal to pathos by providing…”