Xenox

Hey, I need to make a persuasive speech for my public speaking class and need help picking a topic. I want to do something on cars because thats what my past 3 speeches has been about and I want to do all 4 of my speeches on cars. My last speech was on why you should get tune ups for you car. Any ideas? Anything will help, thanks.

PrincessS2K

Why don't you talk about how domestic cars run if they don't get tuned at the right time versus import cars.

Like for example, my mom has always driven domestic cars and after 2 years things always go wrong. Not only with tuning her car but alot of hers started burning oil like crazy, her engine started making weird noises and such.

On the upside with imports...my boyfriend drives a 14 year old car and he just rebuilt the engine himself in April. The only reason why his engine went was because he autocrossed it for 2 years and the car had never been pushed that way before.

Hope that helps!

Penforhire

Street racing. You can take the easy way out and argue against it or take the hard road.

Saki GT

Why you should wax your car regularly.

Presidente

explain how NA is better than turbo/supercharge

Ustemuf

i have a full persuasive speech already written out as to why you shouldn't drink soda if you want it you PM me its about ~5min.

Ustemuf

that would be impossible

magician

It seems that most people here fail to understand what a persuasive speech is, which may stem from a lack of understanding of what it means to persuade.

To persuade means to cause to act - as opposed to convince, which means to cause to believe. A speech about the difference between this and that, or whether one should do this or that, or whether this is better or worse than that is not a persuasive speech. If you want to impress the person who will be grading you - assuming that this person genuinely knows what a persuasive speech is - you will fail if you follow any of the suggestions above: none is persuasive. If I were grading a persuasive speech I would give a failing grade to all of those suggested above.

If you want a persuasive speech, decide on something you want someone to do - go out on a date with you, destroy the cross-town football rival, vote, join the Marines, start a retirement account, adopt a kitten from the animal shelter, whatever - and present a speech designed to get them to do that. Do not present a speech designed to get them to believe it is the right thing to do; you don't care what they believe, only what they do.

Presidente

my persuasive speech my freshman year of college was about road construction in houston :dunno:

Ustemuf

except for saki's and mine.