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Texting And Driving Informative Speech Outline

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Leandra Marroquin Professor Parashar WMGS102_03 October 16, 2017 Newark Latinos Festival Outline General Purpose: Question of Value Specific Purpose: To Inform my audience about why texting and driving can be a very dangerous thing. I. Introduction: a. Attention Grabber i. You are sitting in you car and your favorite song is blasting, you singing along as you wait for the light to turn green. You look to your left and you see a person on their phone. The light changes and the car in front of them moves up a little but quickly stops again because it’s trying to turn. The car next to you is distracted they just hit the gas but because they are on their phone they didn’t see the car stop and now there is an accident. b. Topic i. This is happening …show more content…

How can one quick text or response be so dangerous? All it takes is for someone to not paying attention to the rode and the people around for something to happen. According to the article, “Texting while driving, executive function, and impulsivity in college students” by Yusuke Hayashi it states, “In 2014 in the United States, 3179 people were killed and an estimated additional 431,000 people were injured in motor vehicle crashes caused by distracted driving (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration [NHTSA], 2016)” (72). This is something that has been happening for years yet the amount of people texting and driving increase but not much is done to prevent it for the safety of …show more content…

A text, call, or a post someone put up will still be there when you have an actual chance to see it. c. Call for action i. Like AT&T’s slogan says: “# It Can Wait”. Works Cited Adeola, Ruth and Mallory Gibbons. "Get the Message: Distracted Driving and Teens." Journal of Trauma Nursing, vol. 20, no. 3, Jul-Sep2013, pp. 146-149. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1097/JTN.0b013e3182a172cc. “DriveMode App.” AT&T It Can Wait. Distracted Driving Is Never OK., www.itcanwait.com/social. Hayashi, Yusuke, et al. "Texting While Driving, Executive Function, and Impulsivity in College Students." Accident Analysis and Prevention, vol. 102, May 2017, pp. 72-80. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1016/j.aap.2017.02.016. He, J., et al. "Texting While Driving: Is Speech-Based Text Entry Less Risky Than Handheld Text Entry?." Accident Analysis and Prevention, vol. 72, 01 Nov. 2014, pp. 287-295. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1016/j.aap.2014.07.014. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 2016. Distracted Driving 2014, Retrieved from https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/ 812260. Struckman-Johnson, Cindy, et al. "Gender Differences in Psychosocial Predictors of Texting While Driving." Accident Analysis and Prevention, vol. 74, 01 Jan. 2015, pp. 218-228. EBSCOhost,

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