This provides many similar tips to the previous task of specifying your purpose but all these can also help create a central idea. I thought the best tip was to express your central idea in a statement and not in the form of a question. I can see why this would be harmful to the speech especially in a persuasive speech. If your central idea in a persuasive speech is a question, then people may all have different answers and even different from that of your own. This can create controversy because with their own ideas of what your speech is about in their head they may never realize where you stand on the specific …show more content…
One important one is making sure you do not have too many main points. In all likelihood if you have numerous main points some are closely enough related to where you can take one and sub-categorize it under an alternate main point. This will give good back up on one of your main points and will help narrow down your body for lengthy papers. I remember having this problem when I was a kid and I wanted to make everything a main point but then I had no supporting details. As you can probably understand this made my papers turn out terrible and I needed to change that fast. While making all the details my main topics I was just saying al the reasons I thought something was the way it was and I didn’t give any reasons to believe me. I learned quickly that I could just make some of my main points into very strong and leading supporting arguments and thus creating a nice structure as well as a flowing and orderly