Assignment: INFORMATIVE SPEECH OUTLINE FORMAT 3-5 minutes

Topic: Title that suggests the topic of your speech

General Purpose: To inform

Specific Purpose: Your specific purpose identifies the information you want to communicate.

Thesis: The central idea of your speech.

I. Introduction

A. Attention Getter: Something that grabs the attention of the audience.

Examples of this: startling statistics, stories, rhetorical questions, quotations, scenarios, etc. This point should be more than one sentence long.

B. Reason to Listen: Why should the audience listen to your speech? Make it personal to each of them.

C. Credibility Statement:

1. What personally connects you to this topic?
2. What type of research have you done to establish credibility?

D. Thesis & Preview of Main Points: (this preview should reinforce the mode you have selected)

E. Thesis: ______________________________________________________________________

1. First, I will describe ...
2. Second, I will examine ...
3. Third, I will discuss...

F. Restate reworded thesis

II. Body of Speech

A. Statement of the first main point; you should not use a source in this sentence.

1. Idea of development or support for the first main point

a. Support material (ex: statistics, quotation, etc.- cite source)
b. Support material (ex: statistics, quotation, etc. - cite source)

2. More development or support

a. Support material (ex: statistics, quotation, etc.- cite source)
b Support material (ex: statistics, quotation, etc. - cite source)

3. More development if needed

Transition: (Required) Statement that looks back (internal summary) and looks forward (preview).

B. Statement of second main point. Do not use a source in this statement.

1. Idea of development or support for the first main point

a. Support material (ex: statistics, quotation, etc. - cite source)
b. Support material (ex: statistics, quotation, etc. - cite source)

2. More development or support

a. Support material (ex: statistics, quotation, etc. - cite source)
b. Support material (ex: statistics, quotation, etc. - cite source)

3. More development if needed

Transition: (Required) Statement that looks back (internal summary) and looks forward (preview).

C. Statement of third main point. Do not use a source in this statement.

1. Idea of development or support for the first main point

a. Support material (ex: statistics, quotation, etc. - cite source)
b. Support material (ex: statistics, quotation, etc. - cite source)

2. More development or support a. Support material (ex: statistics, quotation, etc. - cite source)

a. Support material (ex: statistics, quotation, etc. - cite source)
b. Support material (ex: statistics, quotation, etc. - cite source)

3. Support material (ex: statistics, quotation, etc. - cite source) 3. More development if needed

III. Conclusion

A. Review of Main Points:

1. Restate your first main point.
2. Restate your second main point.
3. Restate you third main point.

B. Restatereworded thesis

C. Closure: Develop a creative closing that will give the speech a sense of ending. This point may be more than one sentence. You should refer back to your Attention Getter.

Works Cited Page, MLA format (for on-line submission)