Speech 2 Outline

Title: A Proposal to change professors exam's schedules to alleviate student's stress levels
Purpose Statement: Persuade my audience that students feel an enormous amount of pressure on themselves for an exam, but if they were given more exam opportunities they would feel less stressed.
Thesis Statement: Students stress about midterm and final exams that basically determine their entire overall grade.
Introduction: 
Students are stressed about doing well on an exam because they only have a few of them in a class and they are weighted high.

• My friend is very smart, but when it comes to exams she gets very bad test anxiety and blanks on all of the information she studied so hard.
• Students look up what grade they need on a final exam to get the grade they want in a class. This puts a lot of pressure on the student.
• Midterm and final exams stress students out.

Body:
Main Point 1: Midterm and final exams stress out students, which can affect their mental health.

• Mental Health of college students
• Professors talk about it in a stressful way.

Main Point 2: Students may not be strong test takers because they get anxiety during it, but they are strong in other aspects of the class.

• Exams weighted very high
• Not a lot of other assignments in some classes
• Students blank before

Main Point 3: Solutions

• Professors give more exams frequently that are weighted less so they can have more opportunities to succeed
• Professors give more assignments
• Professors talk about it in a less intimidating way

Conclusion:
Briefly go over go over the main points in the speech and conclude with a strong statement.

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Two Strengths, Two Weaknesses

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Speech 2 Proposal

College students have a lot of pressure put on them during the midterm and final exam seasons. A few amount of exams reflect the student's overall grade. Student's become very stressed when they have to be successful on an exam to succeed in class.

In this proposal, I will address the problem of students feeling an extreme amount of pressure on them to do well on an exam because it basically determines their entire grade. I will suggest that professors should give students exams more frequently throughout the semester. If students have exams more often they will have more of an opportunity to do well on them. Professors should also weigh assignments more equally, since some students are just not good test takers. Also, professors should make sure they are only putting material on exams that the students have learned and not try to trick them.

I have personally been affected by stressing out for a midterm or final exam that basically depends on  my entire overall grade, as well as see my friends struggle with this issue as well. This topic interests me because I believe students should have more impacted into their final grade. Students that are not good test takers are being negatively impacted by not receiving the overall grade they are striving for. 

Speech 2

We need to present a speech to our class about something that needs to be done about a specific problem that we can fix. In this speech, we will use visuals to help the class get a better idea of what we are talking about. Its should be about 5-8 minutes long.

1) Do they have to be academic references?