For your civic engagement speech, you will need to identify, justify, and reflect upon an act of civic engagement that you believe deserves recognition from your peers. This topic proposal lets you pitch the idea you’re thinking of for the speech to receive some quick preliminary feedback. Before you write up this proposal, you should take a moment to read the guidelines for the Civic Engagement Speech itself—especially the section on invention.
For full credit on this proposal, provide details on each of the aspects of your topic addressed below (two points each). The full proposal should be about 1 page double-spaced. Please number your responses to each of the 5 questions (i.e., do not write this proposal as an essay.)
Identify the act of civic engagement you’re considering writing about. Drawing from Keyword on the topic, explain what factors make this an act of civic engagement.
To do well on the speech, you will need to make a case for why this is an especially important act of civic engagement. Explain how you’re choosing to define “importance” for the purpose of this speech. Then, advance an argument about why the action you’ve chosen lives up to this definition.
The act of civic engagement you’ve selected should be engaging and unique to your peers. Assess how well-known this action is, and whether it’s something that many members of the class have encountered previously.
Your Civic Engagement Speech will need to address the implications of this action for the wider community (a school, movement, religious group, university, town, organization, or other social body). Describe some of the ways this act of civic engagement influenced its community.
Finally, the act that you should select should somehow be important to you. Explain why you were drawn to this act and why it matters to you on a personal level
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