Examples Of Persuasive Speech
A persuasive speech is a speech with a thesis that highlights your opinion. Typical persuasive speeches give an opinion about whether something is good or bad, should or should not be done, or is or is not meeting some valued goal. Value speeches are ethical principle or other life value; it can be depend on a judgment that something is right or wrong, moral or immoral, or better or worse than another thing. If you were to give a speech about your stance on the morality of capital punishment, that would be an example of value persuasive speech.
A policy speech is a very specific type of persuasive presentation, so the speaker needs to be aware of some important guidelines before choosing his or her topic. A policy speech will really be a persuasive …show more content…
It was during my presentation class and a classmate discussing on doctor-assisted suicide (it should be legal). He started his speech about talking about his grandfather who was suffering from stage 4 lung cancer; he discussed how his grandfather was once fully of energy and now he was slowly dying. He hated to see him in so much pain and didn’t want him to suffer no more. It was a persuasive policy speech and he brought up the points of how a terminally ill should have the right to die under their own terms. The question of value was “How much does it cost to maintain such a person in a hospital or nursing home for one month?” which was around $2200 a month and his grandfather pension barely was covering the cost. He also discussed the five states that now are doctor assisted suicide (Oregon, Vermont, Montana, Washington and New Mexico) as his way of change in attitude. He touched on the policy of doctor assisted suicide, how it affects family relationships, interaction between doctors and patients, and ideas of basic ethical behavior. He also provided facts in his speech about doctor assisted suicide in which Oregon, Washington, and Montana have legalized the practice of physician assisted suicide, and in 2013, Vermont declared that suicide with prescribed medications was a legal “medical treatment.” Doctor-assisted suicide is a very emotional subject and he did an excellent job with his
A policy speech is a very specific type of persuasive presentation, so the speaker needs to be aware of some important guidelines before choosing his or her topic. A policy speech will really be a persuasive …show more content…
It was during my presentation class and a classmate discussing on doctor-assisted suicide (it should be legal). He started his speech about talking about his grandfather who was suffering from stage 4 lung cancer; he discussed how his grandfather was once fully of energy and now he was slowly dying. He hated to see him in so much pain and didn’t want him to suffer no more. It was a persuasive policy speech and he brought up the points of how a terminally ill should have the right to die under their own terms. The question of value was “How much does it cost to maintain such a person in a hospital or nursing home for one month?” which was around $2200 a month and his grandfather pension barely was covering the cost. He also discussed the five states that now are doctor assisted suicide (Oregon, Vermont, Montana, Washington and New Mexico) as his way of change in attitude. He touched on the policy of doctor assisted suicide, how it affects family relationships, interaction between doctors and patients, and ideas of basic ethical behavior. He also provided facts in his speech about doctor assisted suicide in which Oregon, Washington, and Montana have legalized the practice of physician assisted suicide, and in 2013, Vermont declared that suicide with prescribed medications was a legal “medical treatment.” Doctor-assisted suicide is a very emotional subject and he did an excellent job with his