Develop a presentation to persuade:

1. a group of high school students to study Landscape Horticulture at Ohio State
2. a bank manager to give you a loan to expand a nursery business
3. a bank manager to give you a loan to expand a landscape business
4. a donor to endow an area of the Chadwick Arboretum
5. OSU Administration that the campus landscape should be better maintained
6. a client to buy a standard lawn-care contract
7. a client that they should install a native plant landscape
8. a client to reduce lawn area and plant trees and shrubs
9. a client to reduce lawn area and install perennial borders
10. a client to introduce a water feature in their landscape
11. a city forester that they should increase the diversity of street trees
12. the boss that you should offer organic landscape maintenance
13. the boss that you should do integrated pest management for landscapes
14. the boss to start an integrated pest management program in a nursery
15. the boss of a landscape design firm that you should stay with hand-drawn designs
16. the boss of a landscape design firm that you should only use computers for designs
17. the boss that you need an employee manual for the company
18. a nursery that they should not sell plants on the ODNR invasive plants list
19. ODNR that it is OK to sell some of the plants on their invasives list
20. the boss of a nursery to shift to renewable and recyclable materials
21. an inner city group that they should start a community garden
22. a group of Chinese visitors that they should develop a landscape industry in China

Remember that your argument will be most effective if you try to understand where the other person is coming from. Rather than just stating your views try to think of the opposing views and address likely concerns in your presentation. You need to research facts on both sides, so that you can present a convincing case.