Different Types of Persuasive Speeches

Chapter 14 talks about three types of speeches Questions of Fact, Questions of Value and Questions on Policy. These types of speeches shows you how to look at issues from three different ways and then shows you the best way to go about presenting that speech. In Questions of Fact a person can use any of the organizational patterns that have been learned so far and involves the speaker taking facts about a topic and question whether those facts are true or false. If the speaker feels that the fact is false then they will show throughout their speech why that fact is actually false and why. It is important that the speaker is specific in their reasoning and that they give good examples to their audience to dis-credit the facts and gain the speaker credibility with the audience. If the speaker can convince their audience that the fact is wrong then they have successfully completed this form of a speech.
Questions of Value deal more with questioning a topic based on morals, right and wrong, and ethics. A speaker in this case will try and sway the audience to agree with them which might be difficult because people's values and morals range drastically and what might be complete im-moral to the speaker may be totally acceptable to the audience, for example pre-marital sex. Some people have no moral objection to this while others feel very strongly against it and usually for religious purposes which again can be a very controversial issue and is something that is hard to persuade.
The last type of persuasive speech is the Questions of Policy. This would be more like the legalization of marijuana or questioning whether certain laws should be in existence. While this topic is also controversial it is on that can spark some heated debate and in my opinion be something that can be beneficial and fun.