* You may want to use this time-tested organizational pattern to organize your persuasive speech.

I.  ATTENTION STEP: Get the attention or your audience.  This can be done with a detailed story, shocking example, dramatic statistic, quote, etc.  This is part or your introduction (in addition to stating your thesis, giving a preview of your main points, mentioning your credibility, and telling your audience why the topic is of concern to them).

II. NEED STEP: Show the problem exists, that it is a significant problem, and that it won't go away by itself.  Document your statements with statistics, examples, etc.

III. SATISFACTION STEP: Offer solutions for the problem you have shown exists in the Need Step.  These are solutions that the government or society as a whole can implement.  You must satisfy the need.

IV. VISUALIZATION STEP: Tell us what will happen if we don't do something about the problem.  Be graphic.

V.  ACTION STEP: Offer alternatives to your audience that they can do personally to help solve the problem you have shown exists.  Again, be very specific and very realistic.

VI. CONCLUSION: Motivate us to get out and do something!  Wrap up loose ends by giving a review of points and restating your thesis, and then conclude the speech.