The document outlines the structure and purpose of an argumentative or persuasive speech. It explains that the goal is to convince the audience and provides details on the typical sections - an introduction with an attention grabber and thesis, body points making the problem and solution clear and providing benefits, and a conclusion with a call to action. An example outline for a persuasive speech is also included.

1. ARGUMENTATIVE/
PERSUASIVE
SPEECH
PURPOSE
Toconvince
theaudience

2. STRUCTURE
INTRODUCTION
BODY POINTS
CONCLUSION

3. INTRODUCTION
ATTENTIONGRABBER
AUDIENCE RELEVANCE
MAIN POINT /THESIS (emphasizes the
need or problem you will cover)
PREVIEW (emphasizes the problem but
only IMPLIES the solution)

4. BODY POINTS
PROBLEM
SOLUTION
BENEFITS
(all of them with supportive
details, statistics, quotes, etc.)

5. CONCLUSION
SIGNALTHE ENDING (In
conclusion, to sum up, etc.)
CALLTO ACTION
CLINCHER (story or statistic
related to the attention grabber)

6. OUTLINE
PERSUASIVE SPEECH OUTLINE
Attention Grabber
Thesis
Problem
Argument 1
Argument 2
Call to action