How to come up with a good topic for a speech

These instructions will help you come up with good topics for your speeches. This can be used for classroom speeches or any other speeches you are going to give.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Paper
• Pen
• Computer

1. First look at the things you know about. Think about things you have done, vacations you have gone to, sports you play or have played, basically anything that you know a lot about.
2. If that doesn't work, think about the things you WANT to learn more about. Things you are willing to research and find out more about. If something is of interest to you, then you will research it and before you know it, you will have a topic for your speech.
3. If the above steps don't work, then you can try brainstorming. You can try listing things such as hobbies, interests, experiences, etc. If this doesn't work, try clustering. In clustering, you would list nine columns of different categories, such as people, places, things, names, policies, etc. Under each of these categories, list the first five things that come to your mind. You can list further and further under each sub-category, until you find something that interests you.
4. If the above doesn't work, then you can try a reference or interest search. In the reference search you can take for instance a dictionary and search under a certain letter until you find a topic. Or in the internet search you can try sites that have categories and under each category, you will find a sub category and so forth. Eventually you will find a topic.