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Choosing Your Topic         Sites that suggest how to choose a topic and sites that list possible topics

Good Speech TopicsYou'll find over 50 topics on this "list of school speech topics".
Speech Topics Help, Advice & IdeasThis general checklist for choosing a topic has links to lists of topics in several areas, including historical,  motivational, and comparison speeches. (Skip the advertisers' links at the top of the page.)
suite101.comDevoted to persuasive speeches, this site gives general tips for choosing a topic and lists of both serious and lighter persuasive speech topics.  It also has a  list of overused topics to avoid! (Skip the advertisers' links on the right side.)
Writing@CSUInformative speeches are the focus of this site from Colorado State University, with general suggestions for choosing and focusing your topic and some suggestions for topics. A useful outline of the site is on the lefthand side of the page.
YippyThe Yippy search engine brings up results for your search and also gives you a list of related, broader and narrower topics in the left hand column, indicating how many sites were found for each.  Thus, Yippy helps you both focus your topic and begin your research in one step.
LEO: Literacy Educaton OnlineThis page explains what a thesis is and what a thesis isn't.  A great way to focus your topic.

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