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Assignment 3: Learn to Analyze a Speech
In this assignment, you will demonstrate that you can analyze
a speech for informative, persuasive and entertainment content.
The assignment has five parts:
1. Go here to read and hear some famous speeches.
Pick a speech that interests you and read it from beginning to end.
2. Locate a sentence in the speech you have chosen that is designed to inform
its audience. Copy the sentence and then write a description of what
you think the sentence you've chosen is designed to accomplish (i.e. "In
this sentence, speaker X is informing his audience about...)
3. Locate a sentence in the speech you have chosen that is designed to persuade
its audience. Copy the sentence and then write a description of what you think
the sentence you've chosen is designed to accomplish. (i.e. "In this
sentence, speaker X is trying to get his audience to...)
4. Locate a sentence in the speech you have chosen that is designed to entertain
its audience. Copy the sentence and then write a description of what you think
the sentence you've chosen is designed to accomplish.
5. Email your analysis to Terri before the next class.