Templates for Persuasive Outlines

 

The links below take you to sample outline patterns or “templates” for persuasive speeches organized in the different ways discussed in your text.  They are samples only, you may choose to follow these closely or loosely or not at all.  They are excellent guidelines, but speaking is as much an art as a science.  Different topics and audiences will demand different approaches to organization.

 

Logical Reasons

 

Problem-Solution

 

Motivated Sequence

 

Comparative Advantages

 

Criteria Satisfaction

 

Refutation

 

Sequential

 

 

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