Genavieve Pitts outlines a persuasive speech on lowering the prices of college textbooks. The speech argues that textbook prices are too high for three main reasons: frequent new editions with minor changes are published, textbooks are often bundled with expensive software, and professors prioritize book quality over price. Some proposed solutions are for textbook companies to stop frequent new editions and for bundled items to be sold separately. Overall, lowering textbook prices would help reduce student debt burden from high tuition costs.

1. Genavieve Pitts
4/30/15
Cornerstone Sec. 20
Persuasive Speech Outline
I. Introduction
A. Today I am here to persuade you that the prices for college textbooks
should be lowered to a more affordable price.
Transition:
Now I will tell you why the price of textbooks are so high.
II. Body
A. The first reason that textbooks prices are so high is because the textbook
companies are always printing off “new editions of textbooks that have
little changes at all.
B. The second reason is that the textbooks are often bundled with software
forcing students to buy the more expensive textbook.
C. The third reason is that professors tend to pick their books on the quality
of the book instead of the price.
Transition:
Now I will tell you a few ways on how we can lower the pice of textbooks.
III. Body
A. The first way that the prices could be lowered id if the textbook companies
would stop mass producing new editions of textbooks and if professors
would stop requiring the newest edition of textbooks.
B. ANother way that the prices of textbook could be lowered is if the bundled
item with the textbook was able to be sold separately so students could
but the cheaper version of the book.
IV. Conclusion
A. In conclusion this is just a few reasons how the price of textbooks could be
lowered. Because the price of tuition is enough we don't need to go into
debt from out textbooks.