Persuasive Speech Idea Checklist

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Persuasive Speech Idea Checklist

Persuasive speech idea tips and checks to turn facts, values or policies into persuasive speech ideas in order to get your listeners change their views or to convince them to act or to agree with your opinion and solutions. The checklist will help you turning possible public speaking topics into speech topics to persuade and not just to inform.

1. Determine who your listeners are. Because the more controversial you choose the harder you have to convince them.

2. Figure out the socio-economic status of your audience. Age, males, females, ethnicity? What is their political, educational, religious status? Do they have background knowledge about your persuasive speech idea? What are their needs and interests?

3. Note down why your persuasive speech topic idea interests you and what your clear opinion is.

4. What is the attitude of your public towards your persuasive speech idea? Why do they have to agree or act? Can you make the topic more relevant to them?

5. If you want to state a Fact Claim as persuasive speech topic then prove that your claim is the best. Why do I think something is true or false? Provide evidence, hard facts, statistics, new figures, illustrations, quotations, definitions.

If you state a Value Claim then appeal to the morality and values of your listeners. Why do I like or dislike something? Why do your listeners have to agree that something is right or wrong, moral or immoral, valuable or worthless? Why do you want to convince them? Offer examples the public will recognize, find common ground on related subjects and expert testimonies, and compare your idea with oppositional ideas.

If you state a Policy Claim in a persuasive speech then persuade that there is a problem and get the audience to agree with your solution. Appeal to human needs, to reason and to emotion. Summarize the present situation, the causes and the negative effects everybody will recognize. Present a solution to solve the problem.

6. Set the goal of your persuasive speech idea. Formulate it in a single phrase. In my persuasive speech tutorial you find links to concrete ideas for this type of speech topics. Here are some sample speech ideas:

Fact claim: I want to persuade that the aging population has negative effects on the economy.

Value claim: I want to persuade that metal detectors in schools violate the rights of students.

Policy claim: I want to persuade the public that arranged marriages should be outlawed.

7. Turn your goal into an effective speech topics statement that is clearly identifying your message: The Aging Population Hurts The Economy, Metal Detectors In Schools Violate Students' Rights and Arranged Marriages Should Be Outlawed are examples of a catchy persuasive speech idea.

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