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an outline and reference list

Step 1 Plan your speech.

Select an occasion or situation for your ceremonial speech.

Step 2 Review the process of thesis development.

Review the information in Lesson 4 of the course about creating a specific purpose statement and thesis, deriving a question based on the thesis, and using the question to determine the main points to cover in the speech. Consider reviewing the documents you created for Assignment 4.1: Developing Purpose and Thesis Statements and Assignment 4.2: Get to the Point.

Step 3 Enter topic information.

In a document for this assignment, determine and enter the following information about your topic.

• Description of the setting (occasion or situation) for your ceremonial speech
• Description of the audience for your speech (you get to define your audience)
• Topic
• General purpose
• Specific purpose

Step 4 Select a pattern.

Based on your knowledge of patterns of organizing speech information, select a pattern of organization to use to create an outline for your speech.

Step 5 Create an outline based on the template provided.

Step 6 Create a reference list.

Include any and all sources you used to locate information for your outline.

And this is the out line tem

Outline Template

Topic:

General Purpose: To inform or to persuade

Specific Purpose:

I. Introduction

• Attention-getter:
• Thesis Statement:
• Preview of Main Points:

II. Body

• Overview of First Main Point
• Overview of Second Main Point
• Overview of Third Main Point

• Supporting point
• Supporting point

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a) Supporting point

b) Supporting point

a) Supporting point

b) Supporting point

III. Conclusion (please write out using full sentences your whole introduction and then fill in the key items below)

• Review of Main Points:
• Closure/Clincher:

References

All entries should be in alphabetical order. URLs should be listed without a hyperlink or be followed by a period.

Interviews and personal communications are not listed in the reference page. Instead they are cited in text: (First initial. Last name, personal communication, month day, year).

The reference section starts on a new page. References should be double spaced and have a hanging indent.

Those references that do not end with a URL will use a period as end punctuation