Speech #2 Outline

Title: The University of Iowa Room-Swap System
Purpose: To persuade my audience that the room swap system was beneficial and should be reinstated.
Thesis Statement: The University of Iowa should bring back the room swap system.

Introduction

  1. Roommates have a lot of influence on each other
    1. 50% of women and 44% of men report having "frequent" or "occasional" problems with their  roommates
    2. Personal experience with roommate
    3. Thesis statement: the university of Iowa should bring back the room swap system

Solution

  1. The university should bring back the room swap
    1. It is more efficient
    2. You do not have to wait for a waitlist to move
    3. You have multiple options at once
Justification

  1. Room Swap is the best solution
    1. Reasons
      1. It has been used at the university before
      2. The survey is helpful, but that does not tell you everything
      3. The waitlist system is not efficient enough
    2. Evidences
      1. Other option is to do nothing
      2. The university is already paying for the system, but did not implement room swap

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