Introduction:

I. Attention Step:
I am going to inform you of all the good reasons there are to become and organ donor.
I am a designated organ donor; once I have died I can help so many others continue
to live and all I have done is signed a card.
Some may be opposed to the idea but I hope that you will at least appreciate the
severity of the need for organ donors and pass on this info

II. Thematic Statement:

If you could save up to 50 people’s lives by doing nothing but signing a card, wouldn’t
you? By becoming an organ donor, once you have died, you could further
the lives of dozens of other people that desperately need your help.

Body:
I. Need Step:
According to the United Network for Organ Sharing, there are currently 96,237
people on the waiting list who need an organ transplant to live.
Each day about 77 people receive organ transplants
19 people die each day due to organ shortages

II. Main point #1:

You will not receive poor medical care if you are a potential organ donor.

Supporting Material:
Doctors will do anything they can to preserve a life.
It is only after all efforts to resuscitate a person fail, that organ donation is even
considered.
Organs only collected after cardiac death or brain death (no O2 or blood flow).

III. Main point #2:

No longer using your body, why not help someone who is alive and in need of organs?

Supporting Material:
Organ donation has between an 80% and 85% success rate.
All major religions in the U.S. support organ donation and see it as an act of
generosity.

IV, Main point #3:

You will not be “butchered” when donating your organs

Supporting Material:
Organ and tissue recovery is carried out like any other surgical procedure and an
open-casket burial is still possible after organ donation is carried out.
Through the entire donation process the body is treated with care, respect and dignity

V. Main point #4:

Let your family know of your wishes to be an organ donor

Supporting Material:
You can be a registered organ donor but if your family doesn’t know then they may
not consent to the donation
You can designate which tissues/organs to donate, on your card

VI. Satisfaction Step:

You can know that once you have passed on that the loss of your life could save
several more by donating what you no longer have any use for.
You can help save or improve up to 50 lives with your donation

Conclusion:
I. Visualization Step:
Pass around Organ Donor cards
Use these to become a recognized organ donor
Can specify what to donate on card
The witness signatures need be those of family members so they know your wishes

II. Restatement of Thematic Statement:

Becoming an organ donor is an easy, selfless, and gratuitous act that could easily save
dozens of lives, at no risk to you.

III. Concluding Remarks:

There are nearly 100,000 lives at stake in this country alone, dependent on you and
me to supply them with the life-saving organs we will never use again.

IV. Action Step:

Sign a donor card
Ask for it to be places on your driver’s license
Communicate your wishes with your family members
_________ Fulfilled time requirement

Persuasive Speech Evaluation Form

Speaker: Dylan Pinkston
Topic: Be an Organ Donor

Introduction: (30 points)

____ Attention Step (10)
____ Introduced topic clearly (10)
____ Clear thematic statement (10)

Body: (30 points)

____ Need Step (5)
____ Clear main points (10)
____ Main points fully supported (10)
____ Satisfaction Step (5)

Conclusion: (20 points)

____ Visualization Step (5)
____ Reinforced the thematic statement (5)
____ Action Step (10)

Delivery: (2 points each = 20 points)

____ Extemporaneous
____ Good Eye Contact
____ Notes used unobtrusively
____ Logical organization
____ Words articulated clearly
____ Appropriate and correct language
____ Speaker commitment evident
____ Natural, unobtrusive, gestures
____ Smooth transitions
____ Developed ethos

Overall Evaluation: (Five points deducted for each criterion not met.)
____ Met assignment
____ References cited
____ Message adapted to audience
____ Visual aid included

What did the speaker do most effectively?

What are areas of improvement?