How Do You Write A Good Speech Outline?
Here’s how to prepare an outline for a speech you are giving, no matter what the setting or the topic of the speech may be. First fill in each of the topics below as a way of helping you think through your speech. I’ve given an example next to each. Topic: ______________________________________ Name the topic in four to eight words Example: Causes for the rise of skin cancer among teens General Purpose: ______________ Choose from one of these three: To Inform, To Evoke (memories, laughter, etc.), or To Persuade Example: To inform Specific Purpose: ____________________________________________ Take your general purpose, add your topic to it, add a few qualifiers to that, and you have your specific purpose Example: To inform my audience about the three main causes for the rise of skin cancer among teens in the last decade in the United States Thesis: ______________________________________________________ Take your specific purpose statement and turn it into a simple (declarative) statemen
