Q&A for How to Write an Introduction for a Persuasive Speech

Practice your speech as much as possible before you have to do it in front of your class. Start by doing the speech in a room alone, then do it in front of a couple people, then a few more people, etc. This way you'll get used to being observed while you're speaking, and the more times you practice it, the more confident you will feel.

Treat the non-response lightly, and then speak for the audience yourself by saying something like "some people might say...", thereby setting up the point(s) you want to make. (Also, if you wait long enough, someone will probably offer a response to you.)

Yes. That is a great idea. Engaging the reader leads them to want to listen to your speech, so you could add a short but powerful introduction and include your rhetorical question as a thinking launch point.

You should start by greeting your audience and then state statistics about why mental health is important or why it is personally important to you.

The next part is the body, in which you put your reasons. The body is important because it's how you can convince your readers. Try using three reasons. First, make a new paragraph below the introduction. Then you can write your first reason. You details for your reasons. It can include facts. Do the same, with each new reason below the other one. You can separate the reasons in paragraphs, or you can put them into the same paragraph. The choice is yours.

To write a concluding paragraph, just sum up all your reasons, like if you did an essay about the environment, you can say: The environment is finite and special, and we need to protect it. We can do that by picking up litter, walk to school/job more often, and turn off lights in unused rooms."

Learn the whole speech by heart. Then it will feel easier and more comfortable when you're saying it. It will also allow you to give more eye contact and make you less nervous. You can even add small gestures if you learn the whole thing off by heart!

Introduce the reader about your topic. For example: Social Media is harmful to society. It has helped people stay in contact, but times have changed. People are spending numerous hours on it and it is changing people's lifestyle habits and for some, even their personality. People are wasting their precious time looking at how many followers they have or texting their friend who is just sitting next to them. These are some reasons why social media does more harm than good and I will now discuss these...

You can describe a time when you or someone you know has been a victim of racism, or you can discuss about historical figures who helped make a difference and fought against racism.

Third speakers generally focus on rebuttals, meaning they need to counteract arguments from the opposition's case. Also, third speakers can introduce extra points or sum up their team's original points and cases. You can start by asking a rhetorical question to the audience, stating a statistic related to video games and the topic and pointing out flaws in the opposition's case, putting in facts, data and other arguments used by your team. This all in all should give you a pretty good introduction to your case as a third speaker in a debate.

First, bring up a time where there was misunderstanding on social media. Briefly explain the effects. This should grab the crowd's attention. Introduce your thesis statement. Ask the crowd if they ever saw this (don’t expect an answer). Explain the long-term effect it has on the world. Then briefly talk about the main points you’ll cover.

Most persuasive writing comes from personalising the experience. Your experience should relate to them for them to want to help achieve your goal. Make your reader understand on a one-to-one basis why this topic is important to them and what they are to gain from it.

Maybe address whether you think this statement is true. Give examples from poems and connect to real life examples.

Take it back to learning. Start with asking how many things do you think you learn per day? Then move into how did you learn all of that? Trying to make a point that learning happens all the time and most of it is away from the formal learning activities. The same applies to children, hence play is learning too.