Oral Topics 2015 with Useful Resources and Research Steps

[chansena]

So I have decided to make a thread about possible oral topics, as there seems to several questions about topics. I have also outlined steps which could be used in researching for an oral presentation and some useful resources.
P.S Sorry if I've doubled up on topics

ORAL topics:

•   Dangerous dogs as pets
•   Smacking children
•   Gambling advertising during televised sports
•   Patenting human genes
•   Taxing high sugar and fatty foods
•   Asylum seekers and detention centers
•   Animal testing
•   Animals in sports
•   Banning live exports
•   Drugs in sports
•   Increasing CCTV: Surveillance Systems
•   Home births
•   Tasers used by police
•   Pension and retirement
•   Women on the front line in war zones
•   Nuclear energy in Australia
•   Surrogacy
•   Voluntary Euthanasia
•   Mandatory Organ donations
•   Gay marriage
•   Smoking in Australia
•   Social networking causes more harms than we think.
•   Are we becoming overwhelmingly dependent on technology?
•   Closing crown casino
•   Computers and technology to replace pen and paper
•   Gambling in sports
•   National identity and cultural laws
•   Should children be allowed in gambling areas?
•   Social networking and piracy laws
•   Children growing up too fast
•   Women and rape culture
•   Gender inequality in Australia
•   Australian troops fighting in Iraq
•   Death Penalty
•   Government tactics for tacking the Ice epidemic in particular
•   Changes to Higher Education (de-regulation of fees for example)
•   Metadata laws and its implications for privacy of our citizens
•   The Government crackdown on piracy and downloading movies (check the 'Dallas Buyer's Club' court decision)
•   East West Link
•   Compulsory Vaccinations
•   Australian Budget
•   Ice Epidemic
•   Companies such as Google forced to pay Tax
•   Mandatory Organ Donations
•   Sexualization of genders in movies
•   Parents using IVF to select the Sex of their Baby
•   Armed Officers on Train Stations at Night
•   Culling Sharks
•   The government investing in mental health
•   Legalizing cannabis for medical use
•   The end of car manufacturing in Australia
•   Poker Machines
•   Aboriginal incarceration
•   Disability Rights
•   Loan Wolf Attacks

Useful Resources:

•   SBS Insight: (Really good discussions and opinions/ views explored) http://www.sbs.com.au/news/insight

•   The Age: Comment's Section http://www.theage.com.au/comment

•   Time Magazine

Research Steps for an Oral Presentation:

1.   Ensure that your issue has been approved. Establish the two main sides of the issue.
2.   Research your issue: you must find a series of credible sources within the debate.
3.   Think carefully about your research and issue. State your point of view clearly in your contention/s. 
4.   What do you want your audience to think about: the issue/ those involved/ to do?
5.   Decide on your strongest points and main arguments.
•   What I like to do is debunk the possible arguments which the other side could argue.
6.   What are your arguments that will support your contention? Use logically constructed argument
7.   Collect support for your arguments and points. This can include: evidence, reasons, facts, examples, and causes with explanations.
8.   Think about how the opposition could attack your points and how you could counter some of these to make your case convincing.
9.   Think about how you will tailor your ideas to persuade your desired audience
•   What language should I use, that would be appropriate for each argument?
•   What language strategies will I use? How will I order my arguments and language devices:
Begin with anecdote, juxtapose contrasting images, degrade the opponent then appeal to the wider community for support? Shock the audience and then….Build Suspense something that will grab your audience’s attention from the onset of the oral.


Hope this is helpful and useful 

[literally lauren]

Awesome work, man
Linked this to the Resource thread