Persuasion Speech Rough Draft
Outline
*Attention-getter:
*Who cares:
*Preview of main points:
Transition:
I. Problem
A. How big is the problem?
Example 1. (Numbers go here: 1,400 people last year)
Example 2. (Percents go here: 72% of Americans
believe)
Website:
B. How
bad is the problem?
Example 1. (National story)
Website:
Example 2. (Local story)
Website:
C. How
long has it been happening?
1. Decade when it became a problem:
2. Year when it really got bad:
Website:
D. Whose
fault is it?
1. Company/Person/Group who could have helped but didn't
Prove it
2. Company/Person/Group who could have helped but didn't
Prove it
Website:
Transition:
II. Solution
A.What is your plan? (What should be done to fix the Problem?)
1.
2.
3.
B. How
will it solve the problem?
1. How does it solve “How big” (How will your plan
make the #s go down)
2. How does it solve “How bad” (How will your plan
lessen the bad effects)
C. How
can WE (15 year-olds) enact your solution? (What can we get up RIGHT
NOW and DO to start your plan?)
1.
2.
3.
D. How much money/resources will be needed? (How much will your plan cost)
E. Where will the money/resources come from? (How are you going to get that?)
Transition:
III. Benefits
of Your Solution
A. How’s
life going to be better if we do this? (Sell us on your plan)
B.
How’s life going to be worse if we don’t? (Warn us against doing
nothing)
Transition:
*Review of main points
*So what now?
*Clincher