what is a best topic to use for a persuasive speech,and how to begin my speech?

Question

I need to give a presentation on a topic.

Answer 1

To give a truly great speech, you should pick a topic that you are really passionate about. When I taught, I always enjoyed the speeches that began with a question. They caught my attention and got me thinking about the topic immediately.
Remember to do your research and present both facts and opinions. It's also good to sometimes argue both sides of the topic.
~ Good Luck ~

Answer 2

To misquote Isaac Asimov (science fiction writer), don't tell a joke if you're not an expert. Humour in speeches is difficult and dangerous at best - just ask John Kerry.

Please be aware that this answer went a different question, but I think applies to yours.

As a teacher, I suspect how well you do on this assignment depends a great deal on the personality of the teacher and the groupthink of your class. One approach follows:

Before anything, narrow and define the scope of your topic and explicitly tell the class that you've done that when you do your presentation (example: politically motivated censorship laws in the United States).

1. Study and list the techniques of propaganda (you could look at wiki for this).

2. Pick an extremely controversial secondary topic and make a position on it (example: it is morally defensible to torture people).

3. Construct an argument for your position on the controversial topic using all the propaganda techniques you've learned. Write it out. Practice speaking it and revise it until it is less than 10 minutes.

4. Do research on the topic for factual information (use well regarded peer reviewed academic journal articles (from Jstor, etc.), not newspapers and not general web pages or web reference tools) that supports a different (preferably not opposite) perspective on the controversial topic (example: mental illnesses in which people perceive other's socially accepted behavior to be torture towards them). Construct another argument for this new position (for example, the negative role of confrontational shock treatment in therapy for this mental illness), based only on the factual, well researched information and use NONE of the propaganda techniques that you now know. Use numbers, ratios, trends, specific cases, study results and implications for further research or action, names, places. Be specific and detailed. Write it out. Practice speaking it and revise it until it is less than 10 minutes.

5. For your presentation:
a. Tell the class and teacher that you will give them 2 short speeches with some explanatory remarks and then ask them two questions.
a. Do your first propaganda position speech.
b. Tell the class that you have a rebuttal that would not be heard in the presence of censorship laws, but that due to the teacher's lack of censorship, they will now hear it.
c. Do your second, non-propagada, factual position speech.
d. Read the list of propaganda techniques and explain how you used each one in your first speech and note their absence in the second.
e. First question to class: In the presence of censorship, so that you wouldn't have heard the second speech, how thorough and useful for decision making was your understanding of the topic? Did your understanding of the topic change after the second speech , which you wouldn't have heard under censorship?
f. Second question to class: What flaws do you see, based on your new knowledge of propaganda techniques, in my argument against censorship that was implied in my first question? How is censorship institutionally embodied in the cultural distribution of knowledge (how do most people find out about things? Do some people have more access than other people (both in writing material and in reading it) to those ways of finding things out (That's a form of implicit censorship, the suppression of alternatives)?

This process may not help you in your school project, but it will make you a more interesting person as an adult and have more influence in society than you do now.

There, how was that for pompous advice?

Answer 3

its always a good idea to give a presentation speech on something that you truely have a strong opinion about. personal experience and stories are also very helpful. my dad says that you can sell anything if you have a good story about the product, even if it isnt true. if you need to make up a situation, go for it, just dont let on that its made up. :-) for ideas, just look at yahoo news under opinion to see some examples of debates going on in the world today. good luck!

Answer 4

any topic will be fine. what really matters is ur presentation. and the opening statement is what really matters. it can be a funny opening, a quote by famous personality or a controversial question.

the most famous opening till date is "friends, romans and countrymen, please lend me your ears" by julies caeser. now what he did was a direct appoach. he seeked the attention and that statement is still getting attention. a lot also depends on the type of audience you are addressed to.

if the audience is young, it's better to be funny. for intellectuals you can go for a famous quote and controversial question is gud for any occasion.

Answer 5

Ageee? Gradeee?

I'm in grade nine and i did mine on cyberbullying for the past two years (Different teachers)... and ive gotten high nineties.. oohh.. and "barbies influence" talk about.. how shes made skinny with big boobs and etc. and you could start if off like "who here has had a barbie doll?" "preetty much everyone" I did mine on that ... it was good.

Answer 6

abortion, death penalty, legalizing certain things-animals, weed, etc