Assignment: Advocacy for Mental illness

Oral TestimonialSocial workers are often asked to represent clients who are disenfranchised. They are a voice for the oppressed and thus must present information and arguments in a structured, deliberate manner to influence key stakeholders in public forums. For this assignment, you are to offer a persuasive presentation in support of the social welfare policy you selected for your Analysis of Social Welfare Policy paper. This should be delivered orally as though you were speaking in a public forum. Your testimony should include a scholarly article related to the presentation and be about 5 minutes long. This week, you should begin thinking about the clients you want to represent for your testimony. Begin outlining some of the key points you wish to cover.There are various ways to explore how to prepare a testimonial speech and below are some suggestions to use as you begin to draft your script:

is’t something you can do? I wanted it to be about advocacy for mental iliness – social workers, family members and governments

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.