Organizing Your Speech

IntroductionA way to introduce the topic you are going to

discuss to your audience. Introduction has 5 easy steps.

Attention GetterThesis Statement

Personal CredibilityAudience Relevance

Preview of Main Points

Attention Getter: Best Way to Start off!

QuoteQuestion

StoryStartling Statement/Statistic

Humor

Attention Getter:

Quote Great for getting the audience interested in

your topic.

Make sure that it relates in some way to what you are saying.

Obesity Speech- Thin people are beautiful, but fat people are adorable. ~ Gleason, Jackie

Stop Smoking Speech- Smoking areas in restaurants are like peeing areas in swimming pools.

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Sports for Children Speech- The glory of sport is born at the moment when the game and the person become one, when all the complexity of one's life finds a moment to emerge in the game." ---Timothy Shriver, Ph.D.

Question: Another Great Way to start off. Simple but Effective. Can be hypothetical or

you can use it as an audience poll.

How Many of You Love McDonalds?

Who in here has a relative who smokes?

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be part of a team?

Does anyone know how many people die every year from drunk driving accidents?

Attention GettersStory

Great way to include ETHOS or PATHOS into your speech.

Can be a personal story, or a story about someone else.

Helps if you get in to the telling of the story.

“I went to a party mom”

Attention Getters Startling Statement/Statistic

Great way to include some LOGOS into your speech.

If you use this, you should cite your source so we know it is a real fact.

1/7 preschool age children is obese

Female high school athletes are:1. 92% less likely to get involved with drugs2. 80% less likely to get pregnant3. 3 times more likely to graduate than non-

athletes (Womens Sports Foundation)

1200 people die every day from tobacco related issues

2007 total alcohol related deaths was 15,387

Attention GettersHumor

Great way to start a speech that is not so serious.

If you are doing a speech that is about something good, like the benefits of something, this is a good way to go.

Jokes-Q: What do you get when you offer a blonde a

penny for her thoughts?A: Change

Funny Statements- “ You're looking at a playboy bunny!” – from the speech Fat Chance

Thesis StatementWhat are you talking about?

Personal CredibilityWhy should we believe you?

Why should we trust you?

Give the reader a reason to believe you, how are you knowledgeable about this topic?

Audience RelevanceRelate your topic to the audience!

Tell the audiencewhy they should care.

Preview of Main Points

Let the listener know what the main subjects you are covering will be

We need to know when you will be finished!

Today, I am going to tell you about……

I will discuss……

In this speech, I will talk about…..

You will hear about…….

Organizing Your Speech

Main Points Main Point-expresses the key ideas and

major themes of a speech.

A main point should never introduce more than 1 idea.

A speech should have roughly 3-5 main points depending on the length requirement of the speech.

Supporting DetailsSupporting Points represent the supporting

material or evidence you have gathered to justify the main points.

There are two parts of supporting points

Coordinate PointsSub coordinate Points

For Example

Example- Family Guy SpeechMP2- Great Characters

Peter Griffin- very funny, always getting in to trouble fighting with chickens

Stewie- a talking baby who is determined to rule

the world and kill his mother. Brian-

A talking dog who is probably the most intelligent person in the family

is environmentally awaredrives a prius.

TransitionsBuilding a Bridge between parts of your

speech.

Why are these important?

Transition SentencesTo help the speech flow better, the speaker

should have a transition sentence between each of the main points.

The purpose of this sentence is to move from one subject to the next.

This sentence also helps to connect all the points together.

Above AllAccordingly AlsoAlthough AroundChieflyEqually Important Even ThoughExceptFirstFor Example For this purpose

Furthermore Granted That In FactIn other words LikewiseMoreoverSimilarly SpecificallyThenThus To illustrate

A way to end your speech. The listener

needs to know that you are almost finished with

what you are talking about.

Conclusions

1. Restate Main Points-remind the audience what your main points are.

2. Restate Thesis-remind the audience what your speech was about.

3. Restate Relevance-remind the audience why they should care.

4. Memorable Ending-End on a high note.

Memorable Ending!

Always leave em wanting more!

Memorable Ending!Always leave them wanting more!

End on a High Note

Lets the audience know when you are finished so they can clap.

Memorable Ending

Quote Great for finishing off your speech on a high

note.

Make sure that it relates in some way to what you are saying.

“Only you can prevent forest fires. “ – Smokey the Bear

“Be the change you want to see in the world” Mahatma Gandhi

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” (Chinese proverb)

Memorable EndingsStory

Great way to include ETHOS or PATHOS into your speech.

Can be a personal story, or a story about someone else.

Helps if you get in to the telling of the story.

Great to use as a tie in to a story used in

introduction

Can tell the end of a story you started at the beginning of your speech

Can tell a story about someone who has benefited from the action you suggest be taken.

“Weight Loss Story”

Memorable Endings Startling Statement/Statistic

Great way to include some LOGOS into your speech.

Great way to end with a bang.

“more than just a fat chance” - Speech Fat Chance

Today, roughly 199, 484 will successfully begin to quit smoking

Humor Great way to end a speech that is not so

serious.

If you want to end on a lighter note, this is the way to go.

Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings

Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.

“The NFL, like life, is full of idiots.” –Randy Cross

Types of Outlines

Outline FormsKey Word-Only a few words for each main

point and supporting statement (intro and conclusion should never be in key word)

Key Phrase- Select phrases to help the speaker stay on track

Full Text- Full and complete text of the entire speech written out.

How to Organize InformationThere are many ways to decide what order to

put things in. We will discuss more of these later. A few may be useful for your first speech.

TopicalChronological Compare and Contrast