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A Persuasive Speech Topics Checklist on Ethos, Pathos and Logos
A persuasive speech topics primer with handy checks for embedding the rhetoric methods of ethos, pathos and logos in your persuasive speaking speech topics arguments.
I have designed this how to checklist if you want to: | - Establish your credibility plus the competence of your sources
- Evoke emotion in the audience
- Provide logic arguments
Some links on this page refer to some of my various lists of speech topics.
In the past years I have developed hundreds of handy lists... Discover them! And use my checks to draft intro, body and conclusion of a presentation. |
Ethos - Credibility/CompetenceShow you have the appropriate background to speak a few minutes with authority on a persuasive speech topics issue you have selected. - What is your experience?
- What is your expertise: hobby, job, volunteering, school?
- How did you ever handle related situations or events like this?
And proof that your sources are reliable and trustworthy enough to cite in your persuasive speaking speech.- Is the author an expert her or his field or is she or he a controversial scientist or publisher?
- Has the author written more books and articles on the issue?
- What is the education background of the author?
Pathos - EmotionMotivate your audience to imagine that they are actually in the same situation you describe.- What parts or aspects of your speech topic affect your students emotionally? Sort out what their fears, needs and interests are.
- Do their emotions conflict with their own experiences and policy?
- Could you use funny humor or irony to cool them down and accept a persuasive speech topics idea?
Logos - LogicConvince them with good logic arguments and explanations in your main points.- Locate major claims and assertions and ask: Do you agree with the author’s claim that... ?
- Look at support for claims and ask: Is there any claim that appears to be weak or unsupported? Which one and why?
- Can you think of counter-arguments most people don't consider?
- Does the opposite side left something out on purpose that you could use while speech writing and delivering your talk?
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