Question of Policy (MMS) Audience Adaptation Paper

Question of Policy (MMS) Audience Adaptation Paper (Page 283-284 in your course book)

What Is the Audience Adaptation Paper?
The audience adaptation paper asks you to identify the choices you made when adapting your persuasive speech topic to your classroom audience and setting and indicate the rationale behind those choices.

What Areas Should I Address?
The audience adaptation paper has three specific areas: your persuasive speech claim/ thesis statement, the choices you have made to adapt your topic to your classroom audience and setting and the rationale for those choices, and the same MLA Works Cited list you included with your outline.

What Is the Structure for the Adaptation Paper?

• ƒThe thesis statement for your persuasive speech should be labeled and at the top of the page.
• ƒThe thesis statement is followed by a short essay that explains the choices you have made while preparing your speech and adapting your topic to your classroom audience and setting. This essay should use paragraph form with complete sentences. The list above is not exhaustive; there are many choices that are made in the speech preparation process. You should explain the choices that are important in your presentation, along with the rationale, regardless of whether they are listed above.ƒƒ
• At the end of the paper you should include a Works Cited section and list all of your sources using MLA format. This does not replace submission of your sources with your written outline.

What Do You Mean by Choices?
As you have prepared this speech, you have chosen everything about it, from the topic to the evidence, organization, and visual aids. Each choice is a decision on your part based within the context of your audience. Your job in the adaptation paper is to record the choices made as you prepared the speech for your classroom audience, identifying your reasoning behind those decisions.

Why Is This Important?
Since these choices will determine the effectiveness of your presentation, it is important to think about them to confirm or improve your choice-making process for this speech, and reflect upon their effectiveness for future presentations.

As you begin to write your Audience Adaption Paper, please keep in mind, this paper should be at approximately one page, double-spaced, plus the MLA Works Cited section.