Persuasive Speech Tips and Topics How to write a persuasive speech © Naomi Rockler-Gladen Feb 1‚ 2007 1. Find an appropriate and interesting persuasive speech topic. For many students‚ this is one of the most difficult parts of writing a persuasive speech. 2. Know your audience well. To be persuasive‚ you absolutely must identify with your audience and make your audience identify with you. This is so important‚ and yet many speakers don’t try. Who are the members of your audience? What
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Kourtney Watkins 07/31/2013 Persuasive Speech I. Attention Step A. Right now in the United States of America murderers‚ rapist‚ and child molesters are being set free. Prisoners are watching T.V.‚ eating a meal‚ and using exercise equipment while law abiding citizens are starving and living in gutters. Prisoners even have their own periodical. Dangerous criminals are walking the streets and crime is a way of life to many Americans. In America‚ crime does pay because our nations prison system
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Abortion I. Introduction: A. Attention Grabber: rhetorical question‚ story‚ quote‚ shock‚ scare‚ stats‚ allusion‚ etc.: Did you know that teenage girls are more than 24 times more likely to die from childbirth than from first trimester legal abortion? B. Why audience should care: Every girl is at risk of getting pregnant‚ and if parental consent is the reason for childbirth the effects hurt mother and father. C. Background Info.
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Outline for a speech Sperm Whales October 8th‚ 2014 I. Introduction A. The Picture on slide 2: Artists rendition of the story Moby Dick. Give a quick synopsis of Moby Dick (Albino Sperm Whale). B. Moby was seen as evil. Most sperm whales were seen as evil for decades because of their huge size and teeth. It has been recently learned that sperm whales are not dangerous to humans‚ so today I will be enlightening you about the sperm whale. C. In this speech I will describe the anatomy of a sperm whale
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Persuasive Speech Outline General Purpose: To persuade Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience that the "ozone hole" is not caused by man and therefore requires no policy against CFC’s. Central idea: The ozone layer/"hole" is caused by fluct. in the environment and CFC’s are little if any of the cause of ozone depletion. CFC’s are very heavy‚ they stay close to the ground and do not affect the stratosphere. Volcano’s put out approx 10X more times chlorine than man produces. Ozone Center of WA
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Anna Rash November 9‚ 2009 Persuasive Speech Outline Comm Lab 150 Section 10 Mandatory Physical Education General Purpose: To persuade Speech Goal: I want to persuade my classmates that physical education should be mandatory in grades K-12‚ yet reforms should be made to make it mandatory. Introduction: I. How many times have you thought about wanting to work out to keep up a “fit and healthy” lifestyle‚ but did not know the criteria for a certain workout or even how much you should
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Informative Speech Outline Date: October 11‚ 2012 Topic reviewed: _____ Topic: Japanese internment camps Purpose: To remind people of a historic event Specific purpose: To inform people on Japanese interment camps Thesis: Introduction: I. Attention: What if you had to be taken from your home and had only given the chance to grab what you could carry. II. Thesis statement: This is important to you to know what came about the U.S. to intern Japanese
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Tribute Speech Formal Outline Zachary Biermaier MC#1238 9/7/13 Speech Topic: Isaiah (cousin) General Purpose: A tribute to Isaiah Specific Purpose: To convince the audience about how great of a person Isaiah is. Thesis: Isaiah has shown me that no matter how bad a situation gets‚ I always have hope‚ and can rejoice in God’s plan. Arrangement: Categorical Introduction “People tell me I’m kind of a big deal”. This phrase is something that my cousin‚ Isaiah‚ always says. He is joking when
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John Doe COMM 120 January 1‚ 2013 A Persuasive Speech Outline (Monroe’s Motivated Sequence) I. II. Introduction – Getting Attention: Has anyone here been to a national forest? Well if you have then you’ve must seen a variety of the different wildlife and plants that live there. A. Problem Thesis Statement: I believe there is a problem with deforestation. B. Overview: Today I will discuss how many trees forests lose a year‚ the causes and effects of deforestation‚ and how it affects
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Troy Gladney Persuasive Speech Outline Comm 110 I. Introduction A. Attention getter: A lot of times Breed Specific laws ban pit bulls and even require that a pit bull be put down. In this game‚ you are giving a death sentence to one dog. Will you choose the right one? [Can you find the pit bull on line game] B. Relation to audience: By a show of hands‚ how many of you have a pet you consider to be part of your family? Think about how you would feel if a law banned the breed of
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