Persuasive Speech Outline
Cheng Hsien Tan
Specific Purpose Statement: To persuade my audience to fight world hunger and poverty through child sponsorship programs.
Central Idea: The world has a huge problem with poverty and hunger and this problem could be immensely downsized if everyone that has a little extra money sponsors a child.
Pattern of Organization: Problem-Solution
Introduction
I. (Attention Getter): How many of you see poverty and hunger as a problem in our world? How many of you think that you cannot feasibly help solve this problem?
II. (Reveal Topic): A lot of children around the world are deprived of one or more of the essentials to survival and development.
III. (Relate to Audience): I am sure almost all of us in here will have kids in the future at some point. Imagine not being able to give your child food to eat on a daily basis. Imagine making your child walk six miles daily to retrieve water that is not even sanitary. These are some terrifying thoughts, but so many children are living in these conditions as we speak. You may think that you cannot do anything about this but I am here today to tell you that you can. You can save a child’s life and help them get out of these conditions by sponsoring a child through a child sponsorship organization.
IV. (Credibility): Along with the extended research that I have done with this topic, I am currently sponsoring two children through World Vision, just one of the many programs that offer child sponsorships.
V. (Preview): Today, I will share with you one of the biggest problems in the world today which is poverty, especially with children, and then I will share one solution to help diminishing this problem.
Connective (Internal Preview): I will start by showing how big of problem child poverty really is and how many other world problems such as hunger, diseases, and even death spawn from poverty. I. The world’s population recently reached 7 billion people and out of these, around 2.2 billion are
Specific Purpose Statement: To persuade my audience to fight world hunger and poverty through child sponsorship programs.
Central Idea: The world has a huge problem with poverty and hunger and this problem could be immensely downsized if everyone that has a little extra money sponsors a child.
Pattern of Organization: Problem-Solution
Introduction
I. (Attention Getter): How many of you see poverty and hunger as a problem in our world? How many of you think that you cannot feasibly help solve this problem?
II. (Reveal Topic): A lot of children around the world are deprived of one or more of the essentials to survival and development.
III. (Relate to Audience): I am sure almost all of us in here will have kids in the future at some point. Imagine not being able to give your child food to eat on a daily basis. Imagine making your child walk six miles daily to retrieve water that is not even sanitary. These are some terrifying thoughts, but so many children are living in these conditions as we speak. You may think that you cannot do anything about this but I am here today to tell you that you can. You can save a child’s life and help them get out of these conditions by sponsoring a child through a child sponsorship organization.
IV. (Credibility): Along with the extended research that I have done with this topic, I am currently sponsoring two children through World Vision, just one of the many programs that offer child sponsorships.
V. (Preview): Today, I will share with you one of the biggest problems in the world today which is poverty, especially with children, and then I will share one solution to help diminishing this problem.
Connective (Internal Preview): I will start by showing how big of problem child poverty really is and how many other world problems such as hunger, diseases, and even death spawn from poverty. I. The world’s population recently reached 7 billion people and out of these, around 2.2 billion are
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