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Informative Speech Outline Public Speaking

This document outlines the format for an informative speech between 3 to 5 minutes. It includes an introduction with an attention getter, reason to listen, credibility statement, and thesis. The body has 3 main points with supporting evidence and transitions. Each main point is developed with multiple supporting details that are cited. The conclusion restates the main points and thesis, and provides a closing statement that refers back to the attention getter. The overall goal is to inform the audience on a specific topic.

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Informative Speech Outline Public Speaking

This document outlines the format for an informative speech between 3 to 5 minutes. It includes an introduction with an attention getter, reason to listen, credibility statement, and thesis. The body has 3 main points with supporting evidence and transitions. Each main point is developed with multiple supporting details that are cited. The conclusion restates the main points and thesis, and provides a closing statement that refers back to the attention getter. The overall goal is to inform the audience on a specific topic.

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INFORMATIVE SPEECH OUTLINE FORMAT 3-5 minutes

Students Name:
Date:
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 in the mode you have chosen.
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)
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. Restate Thesis: 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.

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