Plan your speech
What is your point?
 Find
your subject
 Narrow your topic
 Understand your audience
What is your point?
General & Specific purpose
 What
 General
is your purpose?
● what do you want your audience to take away
with them?
goal – the overall intent of the
speech
goal – a single statement that
identifies the exact response the speaker
wants from the audience
 Specific
General & Specific purpose
General & Specific purpose
 General
 General
purpose– there are 3 types of
speeches:
● Speeches that Educate
● Speeches that Motivate
● Speeches that Entertain
purpose – there are 3 types of
speeches:
● Speeches that Educate
e.g. a course about leadership; a class about
public speaking
● Speeches that Motivate
e.g. a candidate’s election speech; a fundraising
pitch;
● Speeches that Entertain
e.g. a story read to children; a dramatic tale; a
humorous after-dinner speech
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General & Specific purpose
purpose – you should be able to
state your specific goal in a single infinitive
phrase
 Specific
● to tell my audience about…
General & Specific purpose
purpose – you should be able to
state your specific goal in a single infinitive
phrase
 Specific
 This
is your Purpose Statement
● to persuade my audience …
Purpose statement
Purpose statement
A
A
purpose statement is a one-sentence
statement about what you want your speech
to accomplish
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purpose statement should be:
written in full
a statement
clear
attainable
Purpose statement
Purpose statement
 Write
 Make
the purpose statement in full
● poor – Halloween
● effective – to inform my audience about the
history of Halloween in England
sure your specific purpose is not too
vague or general
● poor – to inform my audience about beer
● effective – to inform my audience about the
brewing process behind Belgium abbey ales
 Write
the purpose as a statement, not a
question
● poor – Is the NKUHT uniform necessary?
● effective – to persuade my audience the
importance of wearing the school uniform
 Make
it attainable
● It should be realistic and achievable
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Finding your topic
 Now
you have your topic
 Next - planning
Speech Plan - outline
 What
is the difference between a speech
outline and the notes you make for a speech?
 Why are
organizing and outlining so
important?
 What
is the effect of organization on your
credibility as a speaker?
Speech Plan - outline
 Organize
and develop ideas into a wellstructured speech outline
 structural
 logical
Speech Plan - outline
 structural
elements are:
Opening
elements
Body
elements
Conclusion
Speech Plan - outline
 logical
elements are the familiar advice:
● Tell them what you’re going to say
● Tell them
● Tell them what you’ve said
Speech Plan - outline
 Put
these together, and you have the start of
a generic speech outline
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Speech Plan - outline
 Generic
speech outline:
A. Opening
1. Captures audience attention
2. Leads into speech topic
Speech Plan - outline
A.
Opening
1. Captures audience attention
2. Leads into speech topic
B.
Body
1. Main point
2. Main point
3. Main point
Speech Plan - outline
A.
B.
Opening

1. Captures audience attention
2. Leads into speech topic

Body
1. Main point
2. Main point
3. Main point
C.
Organization
List main points
Organize them
 Plan the opening
 Plan the closing
Closing
1. Review or summary
2. Call to action or memorable statement
Discussion Questions
 What
is the difference between the general and
specific purpose of a speech?
 Give an example of a speech:
● to entertain
● to motivate
● to educate
Vocabulary
● attainable
● infinitive phrase
● general goal
● purpose
● purpose statement
● specific goal
 With
your partner think of a topic for each of
the speech type above.
 For the topics you chose, think of a specific
purpose for the speech and write a purpose
statement.
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Assignment
 Think
of 2 possible speech topics (you can
use the ones from last assignment).
 For each speech topic decide on a general
speech purpose (to educate, motivate or
entertain)
 For each speech topic write a purpose
statement
 Hand to me next class
In Class Speeches
 Check
the website for your speaking role for
next class, and prepare
 If you are a speaker:
● choose a suitable topic and speech purpose
● prepare your speech for 4-6 minutes
● your audience should be able to clearly identify
your speech topic and purpose from your
speech
 Evaluators
– check for the speech targets
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