Persuasive Speech Critique

Persuasive Speech Critique Persuasive speeches can be difficult to change an audience’s opinion, especially cliché topics such as abortion or who’s best basketball player in history. Persuasive speeches covering a general subject that has been studied extensively, for instance texting and driving, typically have less opposition. However, all persuasive speeches require sourcing the information used and checking facts to insure it is correct. The speaker used two methods to win-over the audience which was statistics, and storytelling. This speaker did good job on his speech and confirmed my values of don’t text and drive. The speaker’s delivery in this persuasive speech was acceptable. This speaker kept his audience engaged at first, but started to lose them as his speech

His speech about texting and driving were slightly informative. The speaker states statistics about the lives lost last year and the chance of a person wrecking when texting and driving. However, he did not cite his source for it. He also repeats these fact multiple times and failed to provide different data. The speaker spent almost a fourth of his speech explaining the introduction with visualizing an accident and produce emotions. The long introduction can lose the audience and distract them from his main topic. The information seemed more credible because he was dressed in a uniform, but since the speaker did not formally introduce himself in the beginning. The audience has to assume that this is the speaker’s occupation. The audience learned these facts about texting and driving: how many preventable deaths happened last year, the chance of getting into a wreck when texting, financial cost of courts, and how texting and driving affects the surrounding lives. The speaker did not cite any sources, yet provided the audience more general information gives this part of his speech a high B or low