Persuasive Oratory

League	Event Name	Variations
NCFCA	Persuasive	Digital Presentation
NSDA	Original Oratory
Stoa	Persuasive

A Persuasive Oratory is a ten-minute speech, written by the speaker on a topic of their choice, that is intended to persuade the audience to adopt a particular position or engage in a course of action.

Note

If you’d like to craft your speech around digitally-displayed content, along the lines of a TED talk, you can compete in the NCFCA’s Digital Presentation.

Example

Resources

• Persuasive Rules (NCFCA)

• Digital Presentation Rules (NCFCA)

• General Speech Rules (NCFCA)

• An Introduction to Original Oratory (NSDA)

• What to Expect Competing in Original Oratory (NSDA)

• Persuasive Rules (Stoa)

• Platform Speech Citations (Stoa)

• Possible Topics

Judging

• An Introduction to Evaluating Original Oratory (NSDA)

• Original Oratory Ballot (NSDA)

• Original Oratory Ballot with Comments (NSDA)

• Persuasive Ballot (Stoa)