hi everyone. I am having a real hard time comming up with good ideas today. I need to write a persuasive speech but I just can't come up with a good topic. if you have any suggestions please let me know. GRACIAS

Ok frist of all clearly state what your talking about then overcome your biggest obejctive give facts figures and information about what you have stated and conclude by re stating what you want

does that help?

I would write about something I feel strongly about, for example: "How illegal immigrants help the country by doing work,that no one else wants to do." In my posts there is a lot of information from very credible sources so as to defend this position and persuade your audience,just look up all my posts on the subject. The research has already been done!#2 Follow the guidelines given by your professor for you speech to the letter. #3 Time your speech at home,while you practice in front of a mirror,make sure it is the correct time length. #4 Practice looking at your audience in the room,look to your left at someone, then look to your right at someone,then center of room at someone,then vary looking up at the three different positions given, throughout the speech.#4 Do not use the "ugh," word, that is the most horrible sound in the world!#5 See if its alright to use a "light highlighter," to highlight the different paragraphs, for example I like to use red,white and blue to highlight the first line of each paragraph so that way I always know where to look, and I repeat the color sequence throughout my speech. #6 practice,practice,practice until perfect! I was very fortunate to have had the privilege of having studied under one of the finest small college, speech professors in south Texas.Her students could even out perform some of the students from the larger universities in the south Texas area, to this day her students are doing extremely well!LOL! If all else fails,then go rent the movie "Cats and Dogs," and learn from my linguistics mentor "Tinkles the cat," about how to give a speech. But just don't try to remember the movie while you are giving your speech, because you may break out laughing,and have the whole class scratching their heads! Those Cats kick butt!

thank you so much. the speech is for my speech class. we have pretty much gone over the layout of how the speech should be and how to go about giving a well prepared speech. what i was having trouble with was what to talk about, I couldn't think of a topic that I was interested in but I think what you suggested is perfect. [u]I'm going to write about how illegal immigrants impact the u.s. in a positive way. I'm sure this will go smoothley. lol
oh well, what's better than heated argument.

Nevertheless practice in anything you wish to succeed in is very important! they say that most professionals are always practicing, thats how they become great at what they do!

Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.
Author: Thomas Alva Edison

Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.
Author: Thomas Alva Edison

Some ideas:
Fluoresncent bulbs! why they are better then regular household bulbs.

I've replaced the regular bulbs for flurescent, the light is a little strange to get used to, but I do appreciate my eletric bill lol. plus they last like 4 to 5 years.

I suppose that can fall into the recycling/going green cagetory.

Or

Why alcohol shouldn't be sold at concession stands at sports games..

Smoking banned in bars/clubs a good or bad idea?



Good luck with your speech!

best of luck!

thank you all. I decided to do my speech on the harmful effects of smoking. I'm a little crunched on time and so i think this will just be easy.

Well good luck and dont hesitate to ask