LEGISLATIVE TESTIMONY ASSIGNMENT

LEGISLATIVE TESTIMONY ASSIGNMENT

For this assignment, you will
present a policy proposal in the form of speech to a
relevant legislative body. For example, if the policy you propose is national,
your testimony will be addressed to Congress. If it is a proposal for a change
in state law, your testimony will be addressed to your state legislature. If it
is a local school policy change, it will be addressed to your local school
board.

Before you develop your testimony, you should:
Have
a general idea about what you want in your policy proposal
Determine
who your audience is
Identify
legislative body
Identify
Committee where your proposal will be heard
Identify
who is on the committee and their probable position on the issue? (Places to
look: political party, prior votes on similar proposals, their webpages or
Facebook pages, newspaper articles.)

Your Speech testimony should:
Begin
with your name, the title of your policy proposal, the name of the legislative body and the committee,
Frame the proposal in a the way that is convincing to your target audience
(Jansson,
Chapter 9)
NOT be longer than
2-3 minutes.

THE WRITER CAN CREATE WHATEVER POLICY THEY WANT. IF ITS A STATE POLICY JUST MAKE SURE THAT IT LEGISLATIVE BODY IS IN LOUISIANA. I WILL UPLOAD CHAPTERS THAN CAN HELP WRITER

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