VACCINATION SPEECH OUTLINE

Student Name: DATE: November 6, 2018

SECTION: 054

TYPE OF SPEECH: Persuasive Speech TITLE: Everyone needs to be vaccinated

GENERAL PURPOSE: To Persuade

SPECIFIC PURPOSE: At the end of this speech everyone will make sure they are vaccinated.

PROPOSITION: Everyone needs to get vaccinated for the health of the community.

THE INTRODUCTION
I. It’s colder out now and in the colder months people tend to get sick. One
sickness that most of us are probably not afraid of catching is Polio. Why
is that? Vaccines totally wiped out this disease in the US and as a result
we don’t worry about it.

II. In the past people have tried to discredit vaccines by making ignorant
assumptions. However, we are all college students and we look at facts
before we make decisions.

III. I have done some research for you all today so that we can all know the
facts.
IV. Everyone needs to get vaccinated for the health of the community.

V. A. Without vaccines we are exposing ourselves to dangerous diseases.

B. We need to get vaccinated
C. Vaccines change the way we take care of our health.

THE BODY
I. Without vaccines we are exposing ourselves to dangerous diseases.
A. My Anatomy professor shared this chart with me. This chart shows
how before vaccines the cases of the measles were in the hundred
thousand and with the help of vaccines those cases were brought
down to about 300.
(Professor Mark Graves, University of South Carolina School of
medicine, 2018)
B. AdultVaccine.org says that vaccination can be the difference
between life and death. “Every year 50,000 US adults die from
vaccine preventable disease in the US.
(Adultvaccine.org, 2018)

Now that we all know a little more about the topic, we know what our
solution is.

II. We need to get vaccinated.

A. The people that are most at risk for getting a preventable disease are
those who are not vaccinated. This chart from the CDC explains how
that works. In a community where more people are vaccinated the
disease is less likely to spread.
(CDC, 2017)
B. Not only do we need to make sure that we are vaccinated we need
to make sure the people around us are vaccinated as well.
 Now imagine a time when we don’t have to worry about these disease.

III. Vaccines change the way we take care of our health.

A. With routine vaccination we could theoretically eliminate diseases or
at least exposure to them. The CDC has reported. “Since 1979 there
have been no cases of Polio in the US.”
(CDC.gov, 2018)
B. My doctor Dr. Borrego also explained to me that even though we
don’t see this disease it is still important to get vaccinated against it.
Polio still exists in other parts of the world where people aren’t
vaccinated against it and we would be protecting ourselves incase of
future exposure.
(Dr.Borrego, 2018)

We could turn to several other experts and come to the same conclusion.

CONCLUSION
I. Everyone needs to get vaccinated for the health of the community.

II. Without vaccines we are exposing ourselves to dangerous diseases. So

we need to get vaccinated. Vaccines can change the way we take care of
our health.

III. So today go out and make sure your friends and family are vaccinated to
protect yourself. Then check your immunization forms and make sure
they all look like this. ACTIVITY PACKET.

CITATIONS
USC Union | University of South Carolina, 2018,
sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/medicine/education/basic_science_departments/pathology_
microbiology_and_immunology/index.php.
http://pathmicro.med.sc.edu/lecture/vaccines.htm

“Vaccines & Immunizations.” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, 10 Mar. 2017, www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/whatifstop.htm.

10 Reasons To Be Vaccinated, www.adultvaccination.org/10-reasons-to-be-vaccinated.