Overused Persuasive Speech Topics - How To Make Them Interesting

Sure avoid them if you can. But if not, here are ways to cure them...

Before I reveal how you make your listeners listen to overused persuasive speech topics they heard many times, lets find out how we can make it interesting for you the public speaker.

• Why does it interest you?
• Why do you stand for your values?
• How do you practice your value in daily life?
• What is your attitude to other people who don't share the same value?
• What actions do you demand?
• What are the effects of the required actions?

• What will happen if we do nothing?
• Any new information, e.g. scientific research, theories, findings?
• What has been done till now or why hasn't anything been done?
• Will it become worse if nothing will be done?
• What are global, national, state, community or school related problems, issues or controversies, causes, effects, solutions related to the persuasive topic?
• Is there a link between your persuasion ideas and any of your personal experiences, expertises or personal goals?
• How could the problems or obstacles be defined or described?
• Duration and costs?

Take the final step. Translate your personal findings to answers on these:

• What attitude has the audience towards your subject?
• What approach would interest my listeners? Why? How?
• Could your overused persuasive speech topics made relevant to them?
• Have your audience or other people been affected by the problem and in what way?
• What do I want my listeners to know, do, motivate, change, or to agree with exactly?
• Why should the audience do/think the same as you?
• Which facts and figures can prove the proper dimensions for them and that you're right?
• What information can help them to understand the problem?
• Do other people consider it also as a problem?

• Demonstrate the workability of your plan by citing experts and refering to a successful implementation elsewhere.
• Recommendate a procedure for implementing your solution.