Your topic must be:
Dealt with at a stimulating level: If you are merely teaching the audience information that they already know, you will certainly bore them. If you teach them information that is “over their heads”, you will lose their attention and interest. The key is to find a happy medium, new information that they will readily grasp.
Dealt with creatively: Surprise your audience. Think about your topic in unexpected ways. Don’t merely step behind the podium with a modified version of an essay you wrote in another class. Be an entertainer. When an audience is entertained, they pay closer attention.
Introduction
I. Start with an attention-grabber: Will you begin with a quotation, personal story,
humor, or fact?
II. Listener relevance: tell us why the topic matters
III. Speaker Credibility: personal authority on the topic or why did you choose this topic?
IV. Preview points you plan to discuss in the body: Begin by writing out your thesis statement so that you can preview each of the main points. For example, “Today, I am going to talk about different career paths you can take as a nurse, how the degree is acquired and why it is an important degree to receive.”
Transition: Write your transition here. How should you leave the introduction and
move to the body?
Body
I. Main point one: Write a brief statement that indicates your first point, list
supporting material as sub-points. Make sure you provide the source from
which the supporting material was acquired. Please orally cite your source.
A. Sub-point
B. Sub- point
Transition: Write your transition here; this will tell your listeners that you are moving
to the next main point.
II. Main point two: Write your next main point. Refer to point one above.
A. Sub- point
B. Sub- point
Transition: Write your transition here; this will tell your listeners that you are moving
to the next main point.
III. Main point three: Write your final main point. Refer to point one above.
A. Sub- point
B. Sub- point
Transition: Write your transition here; this will tell your listeners that you are moving
to the conclusion of your speech. .
Conclusion
I. Summarize points previously stated
A.
B.
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II. Close with impact. Will you end with a quotation, personal story, humor, or fact?
Formatted sources should be listed below:
You will create a PowerPoint for speech to increase the visual impact of your language. 4-5 slides are usually sufficient. It is not a teaching PowerPoint; we generally don’t want words! You will use pictures, images, charts to get your ideas across. This is not to show how fancy a PowerPoint you can make but how simple slides with pictures can help you tell your story!
Each picture in your PowerPoint needs to be cited in tiny font next to the picture.
You will have a separate Works cited page that cites your pictures by slide with the URL or other identifying information for the picture.
