Persuasive Speech
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persuasive_outline_example.docxPersuasive Outline Example
Student Example of a Persuasive Speech Outline Specific Purpose/Topic: Is the World’s Oldest Profession Costing YOU?
Opening with Impact: Opening Narrative - “I would like to start today’s speech with an activity. Please close your eyes and imagine you are the single mother or father of two young children. You have no job, money, food or shelter. It is below freezing and your children are crying and sick but you have no money for doctors. Gunshots terrify them all night! You think you have no options and you become a prostitute. Every day strangers humiliate and use you. One day you are brutally beaten. You are rushed to the hospital where you are in pain and dying. Your children have been placed with strangers. They are upset for their parent that will never return. Can you imagine being so destitute, so abused by others, and losing your children? How would you feel? Please open your eyes.
Statistic slide: I will then emphasize these statistics by repeating showing and repeating them on my first slide
"50% of prostitutes die every year in the United States from physical abuse by clients and pimps" (CDC, 2010)
Thesis: Today, I will be talking about prostitution. By the end of my speech you will understand how the this topic affects you and gives you information that will help you decided to take actions that may save the lives of women, men, children, and possibly reduce the high cost of taxes you pay.
Preview: I will announce and give a persuasive explanation of why audience should listen to speech. I will also establish immediacy and likeability by moving into audience.
- Prostitutes: Do They Suffer? Inoculation slide
- Prostitution: Do YOU Pay the Price? Graph slide
- Prostitution: Are YOU Affected by Legalization? Fear Appeal slide
4 Transitions: I will use the signposting movement and language to alert the audience I am changing content for each part of speech: I just covered (recap), I will be discussing (next main point), restate the entire title pointing at same time. Move slowly and maintain eye contact with entire audience.
1. “I have just informed you of my 3 main points…now I will be moving to my first main point, Prostitutes: Do They Suffer?”
2. “I have just spoken to you about suffering caused by prostitution, I will now be talking to about how you may be paying the price for prostitution”
3. “I have just spoken to you about the high price of prostitution, I will now be speaking to you about how you could be affected by Prostitution Legalization?”
4. “Now that you have heard my speech, how many of you will attend a rallying in Orlando lobbying against the legalization of prostitution? …Well, if this is too much to ask…how many of you will sign this petition to the state governor?”
Body and Supporting Material: Main Points, sub-points, research
· Prostitutes: Do Prostitutes Suffer? Inoculation slide
o Prostitutes = 87% deal with controlling pimps
o 73% = had customers who paid more for no condom
o 87% = would leave if not scared of consequences
· Prostitution: Do YOU Pay the Price? Graph slide
o Graph = shows amount of money cities pay per year
o $2000 = each time arrested and taken to court
o $500 = children and family services
· Prostitution: Are You Affected by Legalizing? Fear Appeal slide (use pictures and statistics)
o 93% STDs plus a picture of a prostitute
o 80% beaten plus a picture of a person beaten by pimps or customers
o 50% killed plus a picture of a crime scene
Conclusion = Call to action I will first use Door in Face, a compliance gaining strategy, to introduce my audience Call to Action Make a slide to show DIF: “Now that you have heard my speech how many will attend a rally in Tallahassee this weekend lobbying against legalization of prostitution tonight?” Add to slide mock Call to Action: “Well, if this is too much to ask...how many of you will sign this petition today to send to the state governor to?” Add the details, who will receive it, and when audience action must take place.
Research and Credible Sources:
1. Book : Bullough, B. & Bullough, V. (2011). Women and Prostitution. Philadelphia, PA: Crown Publishers. I obtained statistics on the numbers of women effected by violence 2. Internet : Sloan, L. (2012). Prostitution Should Be Decriminalized. Retrieved October 30, 2009, from http://example.website.gov. I obtained facts about effects of legalizing prostitution. 3. Journal : Monet, V. (2012). Prostitution can benefit women. Journal of Example, 120, 56-59. I obtained facts about preventative measures that could minimize danger and violence toward prostitutes. 4. Book : Youngs, D. (2011). Safer sex in the city. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company. I obtained how government regulations could reduce the spread of HIV and AIDS
