How Do I Write An Outline For My Informative Speech?
Nobody likes to listen to a speaker whose points are scattered or hard to follow. An outline for an informative speech helps you remember your main points and keeps you going if you get nervous and forget your points. It also keeps you from getting off-topic. A good is outline is a necessity to appearing confident and keeping the audience engaged. Write down every bit of information you think you might want to use in your speech. Do not worry right now about order, relevance or anything else. This is like a brainstorming session for a creative project, only you are listing facts rather than ideas. Once you have a list of all the facts you will present in your speech, re-write each point on its own 3×5 or index card. Read through all of the index cards. Then read through them a second time, but this time begin putting the cards in piles, grouping information that fits into the same main idea. Do not worry about how many ideas you have right now. Any card that does not fit into a pile sh
