Persuasive Speech Topics

This page is designed to provide the student with 'idea maps' toward the selection of specific purposes and main claims related to topics relevant to multicultural and persuasive speech assignments. Below are topics chosen by previous students of public address/speech. 

Abortion Affirmative Action
Animal Rights Campus Issues - Athletics
Campus Issues - Dating Campus Issues - Greek Life
Campus Issues - Student Fees Campus Issues - Student Funding
Campus Issues - Student Govt. Campus Issues - Student Life
Campus Issues - Technology Capital Punishment
Civil Liberties Conservatism
Creationism Crime/Punishment
Drug Legalization The Economy
Education The Environment
Euthanasia Feminism
First Amendment Issues Foreign Policy
Fourth Amendment Issues Gambling/Gaming
Gun Control Health/Care/Fitness
Human Cloning Human Rights
The Internet Lifestyles
Media Ethics Medical Ethics
Multiculturalism Organ Donation
Politics Race Relations

Religion and Spirituality

Social/Community Identity

Sports (College, Professional)

Stem Cell Research

Terrorism

Tobacco

Welfare Women's Issues

Links to Persuasive Speech Topic Sites

Policy.com

Public Agenda Online Issues & Answers

TownHall Issues Library

University Interscholastic League (UIL) Practice Topics

American Rhetoric: Research Sources


[Speech Fundamentals]   [Rhetoric & Western Culture]

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Michael E. Eidenmuller.
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