Strayer University COM201: Persuasive Speech Outline and Self Review

This assignment presents a persuasive speech outline and self-review for a COM201 course, focusing on the topic of whether children under 10 should own cell phones. The outline includes a specific purpose to raise awareness among parents, a central idea to discourage prolonged cell phone use, and several main points detailing the negative impacts on children's health, including addiction, impaired studies, and physical and eye health. The self-review addresses the completeness of the outline and the reflection of the central theme. It also includes references to support the arguments, adhering to Strayer Writing Standards. The student reflects on their work, identifying strengths and weaknesses, and planning improvements for future speeches. The assignment aims to improve persuasive speaking skills by preparing and delivering a researched persuasive speech.

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Assignment 3.1
1. The topic that has been chosen is the topic A that is ’’ Should Children Under the Age of
10 Own Cell Phones?’’
2. an outline or speaking notes
Specific purpose
The specific purpose of choosing this topic is to ensure that children and parents can know about
the impacts that a cell phone might have over them. Choosing to leave 10 or less than 10 year old
child with a cell phone for prolonged time period has both pros and cons. This is mainly because
of the fact that this will naturally make their child smart as they will learn to use the search
applications and also gain a good amount of knowledge1. However at the same time, parents and
family members must also see the negative impacts like that of addiction. This will make the
children suffer from addictions like too much time on online games.
1 Wada, Keiko, Michiyo Yamakawa, Kie Konishi, Yuko Goto, Fumi Mizuta, Sachi Koda, Takahiro Uji et al. "Associations of Cell
Phone Use and Screen Viewing with Overweight in Children." Childhood Obesity 15, no. 7 (2019): 417-425.

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Central idea
The central idea is to raise awareness among parents and the other entire family member so that
they are not leaving their infants with mobile phones for a long time. They will have to ensure
that even if they are leaving their children with cell phones they are always keeping a track on
them or there are some other family members to keep an eye on the children
Several main points
 Prolonged usage of mobile phones but 10 years or less than 10 year old kids will hamper
their health in many ways
 They might develop an addiction towards the inline games and this in turn can have a bad
impact over their studies
 This is because children will be spending much more time over the online games and
they will not be willing to invest any time over their studies
 This can also hamper the physical functions of the children as they will be sitting in the
same posture for a long time rather than going out for any activities. This is because they
will get more interest in playing games or in seeing some movies or videos online.

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 This will have a bad impact on their eyes as well2. As they will be spending a long time
over the internet and other such aspects they might get some severe problems in their
eyes. Their eyes will get exposed to the screen and the harmful radiations that are coming
from the mobile screen
 Therefore, parents and the other family members or elder siblings must always try to
teach the pros and the cons of using mobile phones even if they are allowing their
children to use cell phones for a very long time.
Assignment 3.2
The self review questions are as follows
Did I provide all the main points in the chosen topic?
Was I able to add the outline in a proper way?
Is the idea or the main central theme or the topic reflected in what I wrote?
I feel that I have been able to work properly in this assignment as I gave all the different points
related to the topic. I have tried my best to add the different advantages of disadvantages of te
tooic that is The topic that has been chosen is the topic A that is ’’ Should Children Under the
Age of 10 Own Cell Phones?’’
I feel that this will surely help the readers and also mu professors to understand that I have been
able to go through the topic in a proper manner and also able to understand the different kinds of
2 Birks, Laura, Mònica Guxens, Eleni Papadopoulou, Jan Alexander, Ferran Ballester, Marisa Estarlich, Mara Gallastegi et al.
"Maternal cell phone use during pregnancy and child behavioral problems in five birth cohorts." Environment international 104. 2017,
122-131.

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ideas or themes that are actually associated with this. On the other hand, I have also made it a
point that from the next time, I will try to take the take the feedback and also open my speech to
cross questioning session’s so that I am able to get the ideas and the views of what others feel
about my work. This in turn, will surely help me to understand about the different ways in which
I can work over my areas of weakness and then be able to make sure that I am implementing the
same in the coming years,
I will always try to prepare a rough sketch or a plan before I am trying to narrate the speech on
any such topics. This will surely help me to work in a proper manner in the coming years.

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References
Birks, Laura, Mònica Guxens, Eleni Papadopoulou, Jan Alexander, Ferran Ballester, Marisa
Estarlich, Mara Gallastegi et al. "Maternal cell phone use during pregnancy and child behavioral
problems in five birth cohorts." Environment international 104. 2017, 122-131.
Wada, Keiko, Michiyo Yamakawa, Kie Konishi, Yuko Goto, Fumi Mizuta, Sachi Koda,
Takahiro Uji et al. "Associations of Cell Phone Use and Screen Viewing with Overweight in
Children." Childhood Obesity 15, no. 7. 2019, 417-425.