Your purpose will be to persuade your audience to accept your views on a debatable issue or to convince the audience to take a particular course of action. As opposed to expository speeches, persuasive essays attempt to effect a change of some sort. The paragraph should begin broadly and should gradually become more specific as you move toward the thesis statement.
Writers sometimes use the following devices to begin their persuasive essays.
The body paragraphs represent the bulk of your speech. This is the portion of the speech that allows you to support the points in your thesis. Choose the method you will use to develop the body. Use the specific-point structure if you have strong opposition but lack arguments that directly counter those of your opposition. Develop each section or idea in your thesis statement in a separate supporting paragraph.