Description
Purpose
In this week to begin providing organization to your Speech Project. We use outlines because they are structural guidelines for writing and organizing your speech. Now that we have completed module 4, let’s start writing your keyword outline with your organizational pattern in mind.
This assignment meets these Learning Outcomes:
CLO 2: Demonstrate college-level language use, clarity, and grammatical proficiency in writing.
CLO 5: Demonstrate skills necessary to succeed in an online and/or in-person self-paced university-level coursework.
What you’ll do
Create a keyword outline for your Speech Project that you chose (i.e., option A or B) using the Speech Outline Template.
USING KEYWORDS:
Keyword outline should include the main ideas of what’s to be communicated in a manner that is much shorter than your actual full sentence outline.
Doing this will help you avoid getting too in-depth in your notes
Which is important when you get closer to practicing presenting your speech; serving as a memory aid to help you stay on track with your extemporaneous delivery.
SPEECH OUTLINE TEMPLATE:COPY AND PASTE THIS SPEECH OUTLINE TEMPLATELINKS TO AN EXTERNAL SITE. INTO YOUR OWN WORD DOCUMENT TO BEGIN YOUR KEYWORD OUTLINE.
This is a Google Document that contains the structure to use for your Speech Project outline.
You can save each portion of the outline in this template to continue building your Speech Project in each weekly module.
I chose Option B which is –
1. Are you choosing Option A or Option B? Option B
2. In a couple key words, what is your topic? Transferable Skills Speech
3. What is your thesis statement? Preparing myself for Post-Graduation
4. What is your specific purpose? I would like to make sure I feel comfortable talking about myself and my skills.
5. Is this an informative or persuasive speech? Persuasive Speech
6. What is the length of the speech (in minutes)?2-3 minutes
Cont. Purpose of this assignment:
You’ll continue to add to your Speech Project by including an introduction. You’ll explore your options and stretch your skills by writing two possible versions of your introduction.
This assignment meets these Learning Outcomes:
CLO 2: Demonstrate college-level language use, clarity, and grammatical proficiency in writing.
CLO 5: Demonstrate skills necessary to succeed in an online and/or in-person self-paced university-level coursework.
What you’ll do
Return back to your keyword speech outline you created in last week’s Speech Project: Keyword outlineassignment and add to it (this document should be a “living document” that you continue to build on from now until Module 14).
Create two versions of the first three elements of the Introduction. The thesis and preview can remain the same. Clearly label the two versions, for example:
Version 1:
Attention-getter
Connect to the Audience and Establish Credibility
Thesis and Preview (may be the same for both versions)
Version 2:
Attention-getter
Connect to the Audience and Establish Credibility
Thesis and Preview (may be the same for both versions)
