ELC590 TEMPLATE: PREPARATION OUTLINE PERSUASIVE SPEECH

Student’s Name : MUHAMMAD IDZAM HARITH BIN MOHD YASIR AFKAM

Matric Number : 2022645828
Faculty / Group : FACULTY OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING / CEEH2201A
Lecturer’s Name : ______________________________________

Speech Title: Benefits of home gardening

Organisational Pattern: Monroe’s Motivated Sequence
Visual Aid: Canva slides
General Purpose: To persuade
Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience to start home gardening.
Central Idea: Home gardening is crucial for us as it can help us to live more healthier, eat more
healthier and relieve our load of stress.

Introduction

(Monroe’s Motivated Sequence  Attention)

I. Attention getter
A. Are you tired of living in a wrong lifestyle?
B. Do you have a load of stress because of your lifestyle right now? Do you
feel like you need to change something in your life in order to take care of
your well-being?

II. Reveal topic

A. Well, I have a perfect solution for you. I can help you change your lifestyle by
suggesting you to change your hobby.
B. This such convenience has also been shadowing the problems and risks
that it takes along the lead.
III. Establish credibility A.
B.
IV. Preview body/ state central idea (Note: Central idea should only be
ONE sentence that previews the overall speech): Home gardening is
crucial for us as it can help us to live more healthier, eat more healthier and
relieve our load of stress.

V.

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 (Transition: Nevertheless, )

Body

(Monroe’s Motivated Sequence  Need)

I. Main idea 1 (in 1 complete sentence)
People now tend to forget how important it is for us to take
care of our own well-being especially our mental and body
health.
A. Subpoint 1
1. A lot of us now have a very busy life with our
job and lifestyle so we keep forgetting about
Reminder: include intext-
our health because we are too busy. citation (where relevant)
2. Sub-subpoint 1 of paraphrased/quoted
a. text from articles

B. Subpoint 2
1. Having a lot of stress and
not releasing it is very
dangerous for us.
Sub-subpoint 2
a. Did you know Stress can play a part in problems such
as headaches, high blood pressure, heart problems,
diabetes, skin depression, anxiety and many more
2. Sub-subpoint2
a. more than 1.1 billion people aged between 12-35 years
old are at risk of hearing loss.
b.
C. Sub-point 3
1. We also need to pay attention to our body health.
Sub-subpoint 3
a. We only get one body, so taking care of it is important.
b. This is simply because it is somehow will interrupt the
mechanism of sound transmission.
2. Sub-subpoint3
a.
b.

(Transition: So what’s the solution?)

I believe we have all been subjected to noisy public

transit, noisy restaurants and so on.
Reminder: include intext-
citation (where relevant)
(Monroe’s Motivated Sequence  Satisfaction) of paraphrased/quoted
II. Main point 2 text from articles
Often, we reach for earphones to drown out those
distractions with even more sound to help us
concentrate on important tasks at hand.

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 A. Subpoint 1
This means we are taking a situation that is
already dangerously loud and adding even
more noise to it.

2. Sub-subpoint1
a. The problem is, the louder the environmental noise, the higher
we turn up the volume

b.

B. Subpoint 2
This where it is important for us to choose an earphone that are equipped
with the noise-cancelling features or also called as active noise reduction.

1. Sub-subpoint 2
a. This feature is built to limit the outside noise by generating a sound
signal that cancels out background sounds.

b.This allows us to listen to music at a lower volume level and makes it

less likely that we will need to adjust the volume higher the longer you
listen.

2. Sub-subpoint 2
a. Besides, World Health Organization recommends
listening to mobile devices for a maximum of one hour per
day and the volume should stay around only 60 percent
and not more than that.

b. The idea is to minimize unsafe listening practices which depend on

two main factors. The main factors are the duration of listening to mobile
devices and the loudness of the sound.

C. Sub-point3
There are many ways that we can use to limit the duration of listening
and also the loudness for the sound volume especially with the help
of software that are apparently comes along as one of the features on
our smartphones

1. Sub-subpoint 3
a. For example, on Apple
devices, the iOS has been built
to be more conscientious
about adding hearing
protection features to iOS.
b. This feature also has been
added in most of android
devices too

2. Sub-subpoint 3

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 a. Basically, we can easily
use this feature by simply
turn this feature called
Headphone Notifications on
Apple devices and it will
notify us if we have been
listening to loud headphone
audio for long enough to
affect our hearing.

b. This feature follows the

exposure limits that are
based on the safe listening
guidelines set by World
Health Organization.
Therefore, the louder the
audio, the less time we can
safely listen and the faster we
will hit the limit set by this
feature.

(Transition: Apparently by now, we should already be able to understand what is

considered loud )

(Monroe’s Motivated Sequence  Visualisation)

III. Main point 3
The louder the sound, the less time we should be
exposed to it.
Reminder: include intext-
citation (where relevant)
A. Subpoint 1
of paraphrased/quoted
Listening at 80 decibels (dB) for
text from articles
more than 40 hours in a one-week
period increases our risk of hearing
loss
1. Sub-subpoint1
a. Raise It by 10 dB to 90
dB, and damage can
begin after only 4
hours a week

b. while if we turn the

volume up until 100
dB, listening to it by just a few minutes a week can cause
damage.

B. Subpoint 2
This is simply because exposure to
loud sound can damage the tiny hairs
inside our ears that translate sound

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 waves into electrical signals for our
brain to process.

1. Sub-subpoint 2
a. This can result in temporary hearing loss, muffled
sounds or ringing in the ears.

b. Our hearing could improve if we give them time to

recover since permanent damage usually occurs
when our ears do not have a chance to recover
because of our sound exposure is very loud, very long
or repeated.

2. Sub-subpoint2
a.
b.

C. Sub-point 3
Therefore, this is the reason why it is
important for us to limit our
earphones usage

1. Sub-subpoint 3
a. by choosing
earbuds that are
equipped with noise
cancellation features
b. at the same time
limiting the duration of
listening and also the
loudness for the sound
volume.
2. Sub-subpoint 3
a.
b.
Conclusion

(Monroe’s Motivated Sequence  Action)

I. Signal end of speech and summarize main points /
reinforce central idea: Home gardening will definitely help you
to live more healthier, eat more healthier and relieve your
stress. Don’t be scared thinking that you don’t have any
knowledge and you will fail. There are a lot of sources where
you can learn about home gardening. Failure is a part of
learning process. You will not regret it once you started home
gardening and see the result from it. Home gardening doesn’t
require much as we just need a space at our house and effort
from ourself to start gardening.
II. Make a call for action: I urge everyone to start home
gardening as soon as possible.

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III. End with a “bang” i.e., use any of the attention getters
discussed in class: “Only you can change and help your life.
No one else can do it for you”. So, I hope everyone will start
practice home gardening as a hobby day by day so that we can
live a healthier lifestyle from today.

References

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