Select a topic for a speech to inform about an issue. Describe how you could develop that topic using two different organizational patterns:

topical and pro–con. Write the specific purpose statement and the key ideas you might discuss for each of the speeches. With the pro–con pattern, explain how you would avoid sliding into persuasion.
What will be an ideal response?


Speeches about issues deal with controversial ideas andpolicies.

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