Blog on How to Write a Persuasive Speech

     Speech writing is an art to handle delicately. It can be divided into three major types, e.g. Informative, Persuasive, and Special occasion. Different types of speeches demand different styles of writing. Persuasive speech writing is to convince your audience to agree with your viewpoints, about a specific topic. While to start writing firstly you need to select one part of the argument and present your ideas in the support of your favorite part. Deliver your thoughts in such a manner, that at the end of the speech you should be able to convince them with your theory about the specific topic, or if you have highlighted any problem, you should provide solutions at the end of your speech.

Let’s discuss some of the best possible ways to write a comprehensive and accurate persuasive speech:

Ø  Speak to your audience: A speech is obviously written for the speakers to deliver before their audience, and a persuasive speech is not just to give information or talk about any special occasion, it is to convince the audience upon your ideologies, so the speech should be written in a conversational manner like you are talking to them. Don’t write long, clumsy sentences that make the speaker uncomfortable to finish. The best way to check the flavor of your speech is to read it out loud while writing, in this way you can assess that what impact your speech will leave on the audiences.

Ø  Set your goals: With a persuasive style of speech, you are going to influence the thoughts of your audiences, so it is important to stay focused. Set some goals to achieve at the end of your speech. If there are two arguments or two or more schools of thought, choose your favorite one and give logic to support the argument. If your speech is about any kind of social problem then it’s not enough to inform and convince the audience that the particular problem lies in society, but you have to find out and provide possible solutions too.

Ø  Story telling: To engage your audience at once, start writing your speech with a real-life incident, you or someone else have experienced, In this way, your audience will connect immediately, People find it relatable to their real life and it will get easier for you to convince them upon your ideas.  Another way to engage your audience is to throw two or three catchy questions in the beginning; they will be more attentive towards you rather for giving you answer to your questions or to get an answer from you.

Ø  Analyze your audience: To write a persuasive speech, pay some attention to the group of people who are going to listen, obviously the audience. The topic of the speech and the audience, both are closely connected to each other, one depends on the other, so it is really important to look around the gathering before pouring out the knowledge so that the right information reaches out to the right spot. While writing a persuasive speech on a specific topic, think about the audience, whether it’s a young group of people, students, businessmen, women, or people of old age group. It will become easy for you to collect your thoughts at one point.

Ø  Being logical and concise: The structure of the speech is very important, to write a concise and logical speech, it is important to divide your content into three well-known parts, e.g. introduction, main body, and the conclusion. We have discussed earlier an attractive start of your speech, but it doesn’t mean to stretch it unnecessarily. Once catch your audience’s attention, with the introduction of the topic, and then come to the main points of your speech. If you want to be persuasive, be very much clear about your ideas, don’t confuse your audience with mixed thoughts, or midways, give them a clear, logical, and brief argument, logics appeal the most. Finally, at the end conclude your speech with solutions to the problems discussed or suggestions for the situations presented.

Ø  Give real life examples: To influence people’s thoughts and ideologies with your speech, include real-life examples in your speech. Instead of presenting hypothetical situations connect your audience with your examples; they will support your logic more accurately. Real-life incidents or examples are easily digestible than strict and boring statistics and logics.

     To write a persuasive speech is a bit easier than an informative one, because you don’t particularly need to collect all the boring facts and figures, or the history behind the topic, instead you can convert your speech into a fun conversation with the persuasive style of writing. Whatever the topic is included with different points in your speech writing, it would surely come out as a perfect one.