Charles Fernandez

Introduction: Choosing a controversial topic and preparing for your persuasive speech  Situation: Imagine that you have been tasked to give an effective persuasive speech to an audience that is very different from you culturally. In other words, the audience consists of people whose national, linguistic, socio-economic, racial, ethnic, and/or religious norms are very different from yours.   Choose a topic to speak on that you know will be controversial, difficult, o...