PERSUASIVE SPEECH PREPARATION OUTLINE

TOPIC: Why do we need to vote?

Title: Why do we have to vote for effective leadership?

General purpose: To persuade
Specific purpose: To convince my audience that if we are not voting we
will create and face problems in the future.
Central idea: A. To voice our opinions
B. To guarantee our freedom
C. To translate vision into reality.
Organizational pattern: Organization

I.INTRODUCTION

"Effective leadership is putting first things first", is a

strong phases to shows our responsibility to choose a
good leadership. And we as citizens, it is our very first
job in determine which leadership is the best for our
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country. In recent days, we were exposed in the
getter:
media a lots about the internally arguments within a
country or a fighting between two countries for special
purposes.

Behind all these stories, I believe that effective

leadership presence is a must and very important.
Tie to the audience/ reason to
How old are you? Are you already registered for
listen
voting? Do you know when our next national election
is?

Credibility statement/ material Ask question:

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 Today I will persuade my audience the importance of
voting with a speech entitled "Why do we have to vote
for effective leadership"?

In conjunction with our national 13th Public Election

that will held in just around the corner, I do believe
there are so many youngsters out there still do not
concern when is the election date, and even worst
most of them are still haven't registered as voters yet.
Preview of main points/ central
According to a survey held by Malaysia Election
idea
Commission or Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya (SPR),
almost 6300 out of 7000 people are not registered as
electorate and most of them are in the range of 22 to
30 years old. I hereby stand that effective leadership
are relies on the people votes.

Therefore, I urge that this speech will allow me to

explain the problems that we might face if we are still
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not concern about election and voting the right
leadership.

II.BODY

To Voice Our Opinions

“One vote can make a difference”. Voting is one of the

Main point 1:
most important activities individuals can engage for
their country. Who an individual votes for, can have
an enormous impact on the lives of our own. Election

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 is all about selection. The right selection will represent
our voices.

We must vote because the importance of elections in

a democratic country is seen through the opportunity
Supporting details 1: where citizens have to pick leaders of their choice to
represent them in governance structures such as
Parliament.

Sadly, wrong leadership will bring many

disadvantages such as internal corruption, political
conflict, or tension between different races. This is
Supporting details 2:
what happened in Thailand, they didn’t manage to
elect the best leadership and as a result it brings
chaos and lives in fear

Therefore, I persuade all of the youngsters realize it is

Transition to main point 2: essential for us to vote in order for them to hear our
voices.

To Guarantee Quality Life of Citizens.

One of the importance of elections is to guarantee

Main point 2: quality life that most of the citizen in this world
desires. I believe most of you satisfy and agree that
Malaysian are mostly live in peace and joyful.
Malaysians are lucky to have a good leader such as

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 YBhg. Dato Seri Najib Bin Razak who concern and
love his citizens

Dato Seri Najib and his ministry team are always

providing solutions for problems and issues that
Supporting detail 1:
terrorize in Malaysia for the sake of quality life to be
enjoyed by all multi races.

For example, we can see our leader is emphasizing

his effort to strengthen the unity of our citizen by “1
Malaysia” campaign. Through 1 Malaysia campaign,
Supporting details 2:
there are lots facilities will be provided such as 1
Malaysia minimarket, 1 Malaysia economical houses
and so on

Therefore, voting from us will determine what kind of

Transition to main point 2: life that we desire? A quality life or bad life?

The right election will provide the right path to bring

Main point 3:
those resurrection issues to be discussed on the
higher level and it is important for us to elect so that
our vision is clearly heard of.

With a proper administration and a team of good

Supporting detail 1: governance, an effective leadership is another factor
that contributes to translate citizen’s vision into reality.
In addition, a leadership that we have chosen will

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 always ensure to fulfill our needs, interests and serve
the best services for society, citizens and our country
itself.

In terms of protection, our Malaysian Government

offers shelter and no legal alternative to repatriation
Supporting detail 2: for victim who face hardship or retribution in their
country. The majority trafficking victims were rescued
because of requests by foreign embassies.

What most important is they have the time to consider

Supporting detail 3: citizen voices and put an effort to provide solutions to
our problems

For example, in Malaysia itself, we can see there are

so many developments in progress whereas the
objective is to achieve our 2020 visions. As we can
see the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) project, our
Example government translate the vision most of Kuala Lumpur
population desire to have a better transportation
system. This project is will link from Sg.Buloh to
Kajang with approximately 60 km and it is estimated
almost 50% of population will use the service.

Thus, voting the right leader will bring us as citizen’s

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vision to reality.

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III. CONCLUSION

As for conclusion, voting is a huge responsibility for

an individual can engage and it also considered as
Summary of main points: good contribution towards country. Besides that, a
good leaderships are relies in our vote, thus we must
aware the consequences if we ignore voting.

As young teenagers and lover to our country, we

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should be aware and take responsible to overcome
action:
human trafficking problems.