HOW TO WRITE A COMPLETE SPEECH OUTLINE USING A MLA FORMAT
INFORMATIVE SPEECH OUTLINE FORMAT
Student’s Name:
Date:
Topic:
Title that suggests the topic of your speech
General Purpose: To inform
Specific Purpose:
To inform my audience about …
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. Thesis Statement:
A complete single sentence stating the main topic of your speech.
D. Credibility Statement:
1. What personally connects you to this topic?
2. What type of research have you done to establish credibility?
E. Preview of Main Points:
1. First, I will describe …
2. Second, I will examine …
3. Third, I will discuss…
II. BODY
ERASE THE TEMPLATE AND COPY AND PASTE ASSIGNMENT 1 HERE
I. General Statement:
According to (webpage title, year of publication),
A.
Statement of the first main point:
1. Idea of development or support for the first main point:
a. Support material (ex: statistics, facts or events)
B. Statement of the second main point:
1. Idea of development or support for the second main point:
a. Support material (ex: statistics, facts or events):
C.
Statement of the third main point:
1. Idea of development or support for the second main point:
a. Support material (ex: statistics, facts or events):
D.
Statement of the fourth main point
1. Idea of development or support for the second main point:
a. Support material (ex: statistics, facts or events):
Transition: (Required) Statement of movement that looks back (internal summary)
and looks forward (preview).
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II
. General Statement about the article: According to (author, year of publication)
A. Statement of the first main point: (50 words)
1. Idea of development or support for the first main point : 30 words
a. Support material (ex: statistics, facts, events, examples) 20 words
2. Idea of development or support for the first main point: 30 words
a. Support material (ex: statistics, facts, events, examples) : 20 words
B. Statement of the second main point: (50 words )
1. Idea of development or support for the second main point: 30 words
a. Support material (ex: statistics, facts, events, examples): 20 words
2. Idea of development or support for the second main point: 30 words
a. Support material (ex: statistics, facts, events, examples): 20 words
Transition: (Required) Statement of movement that looks back (internal summary)
and looks forward (preview).
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III.
I. General Statement about the article:
According to (author, year of publication)
A. Statement of the first main point:
(50 words)
1. Idea of development or support for the first main point : 30 words
a. Support material (ex: statistics, facts, events, examples) 20 words
2. Idea of development or support for the first main point: 30 words
a. Support material (ex: statistics, facts, events, examples) : 20 words
B. Statement of the second main point:
(
50 words
)
1. Idea of development or support for the second main point: 30 words
a. Support material (ex: statistics, facts, events, examples): 20 words
2. Idea of development or support for the second main point: 30 words
a. Support material (ex: statistics, facts, events, examples): 20 words
C.
Statement of third main point: (50 -70 words)
D.
Statement of four main point: (70-100 words)
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.
References
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