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)