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Student Resource
Gamble, The Public Speaking Playbook, 2nd Edition
SAGE Publishing, 2018
Discussion Questions
Chapter 19: Prepare to Persuade
1. How do questions of fact and questions of value relate to questions of policy?
2. What is your specific purpose for your upcoming persuasive speech? Evaluate the
practicality of this goal given your target audience? How might you revise your goal so
that it is more aligned with the audience’s attitudes, beliefs, and values?
3. How might a speaker violate ethical expectations if she or he knows something about the
audience’s attitudes, beliefs, and values of the actual audience?
4. According to this chapter, how can a speaker motivate a hostile or disinterested audience?
5. What is the difference between persuasion and propaganda? Is propaganda ethical?
Explain.
