...Over the years, technology has vastly expanded its horizons by creating the television, radio, and the smart phone. With these new, portable phones, you can now contact anyone at anytime, including in the car! Unfortunately, using a phone while driving has caused many automobile accidents throughout the country. These handheld devices distract you from what's important, the road. Careless driving while using your phone doesn't only affect you, it affects neighboring drivers as well. Not only is it unacceptable for experienced drivers, but it takes a toll on beginner drivers as well. You'll be teaching them to do something that should be considered illegal throughout the country. I agree that it should be illegal to use your phone while...
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...Persuasive Speech Preparation Worksheet Name Summer Mellert Section Persuasive Speech 1. What is the topic of your speech? Texting and driving. 2. Are you speaking on a question of fact, value, or policy? Fact 3. What is your specific purpose statement? To persuade my audience to not text while drivingand pay more attention to the road. 4. Can you answer yes to all the questions on the Specific Purpose Checklist on page 87 of your textbook? Yes 5. Is your speech meant to achieve passive agreement or immediate action from your audience? Passive agreement. 6. What is your central idea? Today, I will discuss reasons why you should not text and drive, the consequences of what can happen when you do text and drive, and some statistics showing the injury and fatality rate of this dangerous act. 7. Can you answer yes to all the questions on the Central Idea Checklist on page 92 of your textbook? Yes 8. What is the target audience for your speech? How will you adapt your speech to be persuasive to your target audience? Be specific. My target audience is everyone who currently texts and drives or knows someone who does it. 9. What method(s) of gaining attention do you use in the introduction? Presenting the audience with facts about texting and driving along with using visual aids and outcomes of texting while driving. Pjlskj 10. How do you establish your credibility in the introduction? I establish...
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...Persuasive Speech Persuasive Speech Purpose: Explain to the class the dangers involved with texting while driving and persuade them to stop allowing their phone take their mind off the road using the Monroe’s Motivated Sequence. Body First and foremost, texting while driving has become such a big issue among teenagers. Texting, in general, has become the thing to do. Student’s text now more than they talk on the phone. DWT has become most common in kids. A study conducted by Nationwide Mutual Insurance that was released this year found that 19% of all drivers -- and 37% of drivers between the ages of 18 and 27 ---text message behind the wheel. Secondly, the importance of not texting while driving is obvious; we all want to make it to our destination safely. According to SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions) and Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, instant and text messaging while driving leads the list as the biggest distraction while driving. The study, released in July 2007 and conducted with more than 900 teens from 26 high schools nationwide, revealed that text-messaging while driving is becoming as dangerous as drinking and driving, in terms of inhibiting a teen’s driving abilities. Yet even while 37 percent of teens rated text messaging while driving as “extremely” or “very” distracting, they continue to send and receive text messaging in their moving vehicles anyway...
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...Part 1 Audience Adaptation 1. Specific Purpose: The purpose of this speech is to persuade my audience that texting while driving is not safe and it shall be stopped mentally and physically. 2. What kind of change? Although there are laws out there, citizens seem to bypass it all and continue to this day to never change this problem. 3. What did I find out in my audience analysis? How many people did a survey? What were the results? I found out that a lot of people agree to this statement that it needs to take in action right now. I had a total of 20 people doing my survey and the results came to be that the (16) majority agreed with my statement while the others (4) didn’t really care for it since they’ve never experienced or think it’s not that important. 4. Audience Attitude: When I asked people about their feelings concerning texting while driving, most of them engaged in the topic and explained how it relates to their personal lives. However, very few were careless on the topic since they have never experienced or been in a near death incident with texting while driving. Therefore, I determined that the majority of my audience has analyzed that texting while driving is harmful to our society and daily living. a. Reasons: If you text while driving, it can cause lack of attention to the road ahead of you and can cause a near death incident. b. Organizational Framework: I am going to use a statement of reasons framework. This topic naturally...
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...someone here which is a texting and driving. B. Thesis Statement: I am here to persuade you all on the effects of texting and driving and the consequences of it Hopefully by the end of my speech you all think before you text and drive. II. Main Points: Texting and driving A. Texting a. There is absolutely no reason to text and drive, b. It distracts you from the road therefore not knowing what is going on. B. Statistics a. In 2014, 23% of car crashes were caused by texting and driving. So in turn that is basically 1.3 million crashes. b. You take away 5 seconds away from your reaction time when you’re using your phone. Also you are 23 times more likely to crash than average driver. c. 52% of Americans talk on their phone when driving while 34% text and drive. 13 % of those statistics are teens and young adults. C. Alternatives/ Laws a. You can wait to arrive to your destination to send and or receive text. b. 39 states have taken action by prohibiting texting on the road. c. Share social media ads to keep raising awareness on the issue and help others by not allowing them to text while driving when you are in the car III. Conclusion A. Texting while driving to be blunt is rather dumb. Given the recent news on the car crashes caused by texting while driving should be enough to persuade you not to do it. B. No text message is worth your life, it can wait. When your texting and driving you put yourself and other people in danger while doing it. Bottom line...
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...Topic: Texting and Driving Purpose: I want to persuade my audience to stop using their cell phones while driving a vehicle. Specific purpose: Using a cell phone is extremely is irresponsible and dangerous Central idea: Using a cell phone is while driving is dangerous to yourself and others on the road. Introduction: I. Attention: Most of us think it could never happen to us. II. Reveal topic: In our technology advanced world we live in today. III. Credibility: Almost everyone has a cell phone today. IV. Preview: I am going to show you how texting and driving is portrayed. (transition) There is a lot of research done by many different organizations. Body: I. Main point 1: There is always some kind of distraction. A. Sub-point 1: When you are texting messaging the risk quadruples. B. Sub-point 2: When texting and driving you get tunnel vision. (transition) If commercials and stories of lost loved ones are not enough to convince you, maybe some scientific research will help. II. Main point 2: Let’s get down to some hard facts. A. Sub-point 1: Here are some of the key findings. B. Sub-point 2: Texting while driving have the same effect as a drunk driver. (transition) Now that we have all the information. III. Main point 3: What can we do about it? A. Sub-point 1: I have always been an avid texter. B. Sub-point 2: Is a text message really important? (transition) Not only texting or using your phone while driving impairs...
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...Title: Texting and driving awareness week Name: Ashlee Young General Purpose: To persuade Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience to come together to get the university to have a week of based on raising the awareness of the dangers of texting while driving. Time: I. INTRODUCTION (Attention) A. Attention Material 1. We’ve all done it. Not on occasion but literally all the time. Once we get behind the wheel, start the car, start driving and have either received a text or sent a text while driving. B. Credibility 1. I have always wanted to raise awareness of the dangers of texting and driving. I have not had a personal experience with texting and driving but for those that have had a loved one harmed or had someone close to them die due to texting and driving may appreciate the university going out of its way to get the students aware of the harm we can do while texting and driving. C. Tie to the audience: 1. I think we should all join together to get the university to make an entire week to getting the students involved in making everyone aware of the harm that can be caused if we lose focus for 5 seconds to send a text that could wait. D. Thesis and Preview: 1. Thesis Statement – I want us all to come together to get the university on board with making a week solely dedicated to not texting while driving. They can’t say no to the entire student body. 2. First I would like to...
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...I have to do a Persuasive speech on texting while driving and i really need some help! I am suppose to have a thesis with three main points and for each of those three main points I need 3 supporting facts. I already wrote this up Thesis Statement. Texting while driving is dangerous because it can not only kill you but also it can kill another person in the same amount of time that it takes to send a text message. The dangers of texting while driving. A- According to Distractions.Gov there are three main types of distractions. Visual, Manual and Cognitive. B- You can get so distracted that you become unaware of your surroundings C- you can get in a accident and could loose your life or the life of another person. How cell phones effect us and impacts us in our everyday life. A- It impacts the way that we talk in our everyday life. B- It affects the way we communicate to people. C- It affects the way you act twards people. Government needs to put a national ban on texting while driving. A- According to GHSA states that there are 9 states that prohibit all drivers from using cell phones while texting. B- Officers can give tickets without any other violations. C- There would be way less accidents if it was banned. What we can do to help stop this and help prevent this from happening to us. A- Turn off your phone when you are on the road. B- Put your phone on silent C- Dont text while driving. Conclusion. So in...
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...Reina Cyrelle Montevirgen BSA-1A 1:15-2:45 PM Persuasive Speech (About Texting) Teens, I’d like to offer you some advice that may be the most important lesson you’ll ever learn about driving—although it may have only been covered briefly in a single lesson of your driver’s education course. Texting while driving is a serious distraction and one that could cost you your life or the lives of others. I know how hard it is to put the phone down and concentrate on the road. Even as an adult, I sometimes struggle with avoiding distractions while I’m driving. But there are plenty of other options and a lot of good reasons to keep your eyes on the road. I know you may think that it only takes a second to type that text and hit send. However, in actuality, the average text takes your eyes away from the road for five seconds. If you’re going 55 mph, then five seconds is the amount of time it takes you to drive the length of a football field. A better alternative is to wait until you reach your destination. Or, if you absolutely must respond to a text sooner, find a safe place to pull over. You may also think that you’re a good enough driver that you can safely send a text message without interfering with your ability to operate your vehicle. Statistics show that teen drivers who text spend approximately 10% of their driving time driving outside of their lane. But it’s hard to know that if you aren’t looking. If having the phone within reach is too much...
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...Texting and Driving By: Sarah Bento One of the most common, tempting, deadly distractions for anyone behind the wheel is cellphones. One in four American drivers admit to texting while driving, and 40% of teenagers between the ages of 12 to 17 years old say they have been in a car where a teenager used a cellphone in a dangerous way. Although teens and others may not realize it, any cell phone use, whether hand held or hands free, while driving is dangerous. In fact researchers have found that it quadruples the crash risk. Just the act of dialing a cell phone can increase crash risks by three times. In a naturalistic of truck drivers, Virginia tech researchers reported a 23 fold increase in risk of a crash or near crash when any drivers were text messaging. As of may 2012, 10 states, The district of Columbia (DC), Guam, and The Virgin islands have instituted a hand held cell-phone ban for all drivers, with all but two of them making it a primary offense. Text messaging is banned for all drivers in 38 states, The district of Columbia, and Guam with all but three of them making it a primary offense. An additional five states prohibit text messaging by novice drivers. Since the number of states enacting very distracted driving laws is very fluid, be sure to check web resources that follow movement in state safety traffic laws, such as the governors highway traffic safety association, before providing these numbers. Recent research from the insurance institute for...
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...Vuyokazi Sithole STHVUY006 PSY2006F DOES TEXTNG INTERFERE WITH ONE’S DRIVING ABILITIES INTRODUCTION In nowadays people have become addicted to texting as a source of communication. Mostly it may be teenager’s blogging on social networks or sending quick messages. Professionals and older people scheduling meeting or even checking emails. Texting has become a regular form of communication among individuals (Caird et al., 2014). Texting messaging is an easy and fast way to communicate with friends, relatives and colleagues. It has become a very major distraction but also a risk, because now more than ever people are being distracted by their cellphones and mobile devices while driving. Distracted driving is one of the problem faced by road and safety departments due to technology (Caird et al., 2014). This literature review will look at the effects of texting on one’s driving ability. Driving alone is a very complex task because it requires cognitive, physical, sensory and psychomotor skills. It also requires a certain amount of attention and concentration, but it is a trend to see motor driver being involved in texting in the process of driving (Caird et al., 2014). Texting can be defines as using some sort of keyboard of a cellphone, laptop computer or any other electronic device to send conversational messages to another individual. While driving can be defined as a controlled operation and movement of a vehicle such as a car, bus or a truck. Both these...
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...Persuasive Speech: Texting and Driving Rough Draft Imagine this: You’re driving to school like its any normal day. You want to see if your friend is already there so you pick up the phone to text him, what could it hurt, you’re only going to look away for a couple of seconds. Next thing you know you’ve lost control of the wheel and when your eyes open again, you’re lying in a hospital bed. You have broken collarbone and arm, but yet, you’re considered lucky because you are alive. You’re lucky because you ran up a curb and hit a tree, not another car or a biker. Texting and driving is a growing occurrence. All it takes is a few seconds of your time away from the road to get into an accident. While some might not believe it, no matter what you feel like you have to say at the moment, it can wait. Unfortunately, a lot of drivers do not see the problem with texting and driving, or they do not believe that it is an issue. The phrase, “I’m a good texter,” is often times used as justification, and I’m here to tell you that there is no such thing. 77% of adults confidently say that they can text and drive while 55% of young adult or teen drivers claim that “it’s easy.” In 2011 23% of car crashes were texting related, so if all of the confident people were “good” texters, the numbers would add up. Five seconds is the average time your eyes are off the road while texting. When traveling at 55mph, that's enough time to cover the length of a football field, so a lot can happen in that time...
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...TEXTING IS TODAY’S MOST DEMANDED FORM OF COMMUNICATION AND WHILE SOME MAY THINK THAT IT IS JUST A SIMPLE TASK, THE ACT OF TEXTING WHILE DRIVING CAN ALSO BE ONE OF THE MOST DANGEROUS AND POSSIBLY FATAL FORMS OF COMMUNICATION IN THE WORLD TODAY. FIRST LET ME GIVE THE PROPER DEFINITION OF TEXTING WHILE DRIVING. TEXTING WHILE DRIVING IS THE ACT OF COMPOSING, SENDING, READING OR SENDING A TEXT MESSAGE, READING OR SENDING EMAILS OR MAKING OTHER SIMILAR USE OF THE WEB ON A MOBILE PHONE WHILE OPERATING A MOTOR VEHICLE. WE ALL HAVE SEEN THE COMMERCIALS WHERE A DRIVER TAKES HIS EYES OFF THE ROAD TO READ A TEXT MESSAGE AND IN AN INSTANT THE DRIVER’S LIFE IS SUDDENLY CHANGED BY A HORRIFIC ACCIDENT ALL DUE TO TEXTING WHILE DRIVING. I KNOW THAT I DON’T EVER WANT TO THINK ABOUT BEING RESPONSIBLE FOR A TRAFFIC ACCIDENT THAT WOULD TAKE THE LIVES OF OTHER MOTORISTS OR PEDESTRIANS. AND I’M PRETTY SURE THAT NONE OF YOU GUYS WANNA WAKE UP EVERY MORNING WITH THE FEELING OF KNOWING THAT YOU WERE PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR PUTTING AN INNOCENT PERSON IN A WHEELCHAIR FOR THE REMAINDER OF THEIR LIVES OR EVEN SHORTENING THE LIFE OF A SMALL CHILD ALL BECAUSE YOU DECIDED TO TEXT WHILE DRIVING. USING A CELL PHONE WHILE DRIVING IS DANGEROUS ENOUGH BUT TEXTING WHILE DRIVING WILL HAVE THE EFFECTS THAT ARE 100X MORE DEVASTATING. ACTUALLY RESEARCH SHOWS THAT 5 SECONDS IS THE AVERAGE TIME YOUR EYES ARE OFF THE ROAD WHILE TEXTING, AND WHEN TRAVELING AT 55 MPH THAT’S ENOUGH TIME TO COVER THE ENTIRE LENGTH...
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...Informative speech #2 Katarina Hastings Amen! Agreed! Facts Statistics Prevention Prevention Statistics Laws Facts Facts Prevention Statistics I dare you!... - Every day in America, 28 people die as a result of a drunk driving accident. - Drunk Driving costs the United states $132 billion a year. - Most people who have DUI's are not alcoholics. - December is Drunk and Drugged Driving Prevention Month. - Half of all holiday driving fatalities are alcohol related. - 50-75% of convicted drunk drivers continue to drive on a suspended license. - 2/3 of sentenced to incarceration are repeat offenders. - Age 21-24 caused about 34% of accidents. - Age 25-34 caused about 30% of accidents. - Age 35-44 caused about 25% of accidents. - Texas had 3,071 fatalities, 40% (1,437) are alcohol related. - In a group assign a designated driver. - Try to find a bar in walking distances of your home. - Call a cab or other public transportation. - Drink nonalcoholic drinks. - Annual total of text messages surged from 57 billion in 2005 to 1.8 trillion in 2010. - 1 in 5 drivers confess to surfing the web while driving. - Brain function decreases by 40% when trying to multitask. - A crash is likely to happen: 23x's more while texting 2.8x's more while dialing a number 1.4x's more while reaching for a device 1.3x's more while talking or listening on the phone. - 11 DEATHS HAPPEN EVERYDAY! - 2,600 traffic deaths are caused each year by drivers using cell phones. - 570,000 accidents...
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...Why banning cell phone while driving should be mandatory nationwide My intention for you to take from this speech is to inform you why it is a good idea to banned all cell phone usage while driving. It was normal for people to drive drunk and not bother to wear a seatbelt 50 years ago. Eventually, everyone realized how bad of an idea this was and now driving drunk and not wearing a seatbelt are both illegal. Today, many argue that texting and talking on phones while driving is just as bad, if not worse, than driving drunk. Back in 2006, the University of Utah found that, "... people are as impaired when they drive and talk on a cell phone as they are when they drive intoxicated at the legal blood-alcohol limit" of 0.08 percent, which is the minimum level that defines illegal drunken driving in most U.S. states. Companies like AT&T have created campaigns that encourage cell phone users to avoid texting while driving at all costs. Using a cell phone while driving is now illegal in certain states across the country. "Thirty-eight states have laws restricting or outlawing the use of electronic devices while driving," U.S. Transportation Secretary, Ray LaHood said last year. But people still use their cell phones while driving. Image how a two minute conversation on phone while driving could change your life or the life of another. A crash can occur in less than one second, but could affect you or someone else for life. There are a thousand ways to die in a crash,...
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