PERSUASIVE SPEECH OUTLINE FORMAT
Student’s Name:
Date:
Topic: Title that suggests the topic of your speech
General Purpose:
Specific Purpose:
Thesis Statement: A is better than B
I. INTRODUCTION TO SPECIFY: Hand Gesture/move/ face/volume
A. Attention Getter: Something that grabs the attention of the audience.
B. Reason to Listen: Why should the audience listen to your speech?
C. Thesis Statement: Exact same statement as above.
D. Credibility Statement: 1. What personally connects you to this topic?
2. What type of research have you done to establish credibility?
II. BODY. TO SPECIFY: Hand Gesture/move/ face/volume
A. Need Step: B is worse than A
1. Idea of development or support for the first main point
a. Support material (ex: statistics, quotation, etc.- cite source)
b. Support material (ex: statistics, quotation, etc. – cite source)
B. Solution Step: A is better than B TO SPECIFY: Hand Gesture/move/ face/volume
1. Idea of development or support for the second main point
a. Support material (ex: statistics, quotation, etc.- cite source)
b. Support material (ex: statistics, quotation, etc. – cite source)
C. Visualization: TO SPECIFY: Hand Gesture/move/ face/volume
(Use positive/negative or contrast strategies and make arguments to help your audience to visualize your solution step; what happens if your solution will take or will not take place.
1. Idea of development or support for the first main point
a. Support material (ex: statistics, quotation, etc.- cite source)
b. Support material (ex: statistics, quotation, etc. – cite source)
III. CONCLUSION: ACTION STEP TO SPECIFY: Hand Gesture/move/ face/volume
A. Restate Thesis: Exact same as above.
B Call for Action: Call the audience to act upon your recommendation
C. Closure: Develop a creative closing
References
MLA format; all references need to be cited in MLA format.
3 sources ( web pages, blogs, magazines, newspaper)