For Monday, you will be writing a short persuasive speech on the following prompt. You speech should be between 1 and 1 1/2 pages long. You will need to use specific examples as supports for you claim(s). These examples can come from a wide range of areas: personal experience, hypothetical examples, texts, human nature, etc. Your speech should sound like an impassioned speech (not a boring homework assignment), so work on using devices (see below) to help in creating a persuasive tone in your essay. For this assignment to be complete, you will need to include the following requirements below.
You must have at least one of the following:
parallel structure
periodic structure
epanorthosis
rhetorical question
You must have at least one of the following:
counterargument/antithesis
refutation of counterargument
faulty dilemma
appeal to ethos
Prompt:
Many high schools, colleges, and universities have honor codes or honor systems: sets of rules or principles that are
intended to cultivate integrity. These rules or principles often take the form of written positions on practices like
cheating, stealing, and plagiarizing as well as on the consequences of violating the established codes. Often times these honor codes are self enforced or enforced by students and not the school administration. Develop a position on whether you feel self-enforced honor codes are an effective deterrent to cheating and plagiarism.
