INFORMATIVE SPEECH OUTLINE FORMAT
Student’s Name: Gabriela Sanchez
Date:
Topic: Sexual Transmitted Diseases
General Purpose: To inform audience about STD’s
Specific Purpose:STD’s can affect almost anyone. Through this speech audience will learn about the different STD’s, how they are transmitted if they have cure and most important how to prevent them.
Thesis: Sexual Transmitted Diseases
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)
I. Thesis: ______________________________________________________________________
1. First, I will describe …
2. Second, I will examine …
3. Third, I will discuss…
II. Restate thesis.
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 of movement 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 of movement 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)
b. 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. RestateThesis: Exact same as above.
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.
References
• MLA format; all references need to be cited in MLA format.
• Electronic sources must be authoritative and credible. Sources from the .com domain are not to be used unless authorship is verifiable and authoritative. ( .edu, .gov, or .org domains are acceptable.)
• Be sure to make sure that the references are in Alphabetical order.
• Double-Spaced; all references should be double-spaced and indented.
• Four source minimum: You must have at least four sources (including one print and one “expert’ interview) cited in your outline and listed on your reference page.
• Make sure to provide all necessary information in the references.
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