How does one write a persuasive speech on a non-controversial topic?

You make a good point when you say there isn't another side. Everybody perceives procrastination as a bad thing already. Nobody tries to procrastinate. It's like persuading people not to burn the toast.

Let's make your topic more specific, I think this will help. Persuade your classmates "not to procrastinate with essay writing".

Why do people procrastinate? These are the most common reasons:

- They can't think of a topic. - Like you ( :

- They can't think of anything to write

Persuade them that these two problems are illusions. In reality the reasons are:

- They can't think of a PERFECT topic. - Like you ( :

- They can't think of anything PERFECT to write

The desire for perfection is what makes us procrastinate. Procrastination is merely a symptom, the real enemy is the desire for perfection. Now you have a more interesting topic.

"Striving for perfection can lead to poorer results."

Start your speech with this quote from Voltaire "The perfect is the enemy of the good."

Then follow with something like this:

How many times have you procrastinated because you couldn't think of a good topic, run out of time, settled for an ok topic, rushed to get your essay finished and produced a poor result. I bet you wished you'd settled for the ok topic to begin with and had time to do a good job.

Hope this gives you some ideas.

Persuasive Speech On Procrastination

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