INFORMATIVE SPEECH OUTLINE TEMPLATE Instructions: Complete the following outline

INFORMATIVE SPEECH OUTLINE TEMPLATE
Instructions: Complete the following outline for your Informative Speech.
Please note keep the words or phrases in bold, you can remove the part of the outline in italics and replace it with your own content.
Topic: Title that suggests the topic of your speech
General Purpose: To inform __________.
Specific Purpose: Your specific purpose identifies the information you want to communicate in the mode you have chosen.
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. Credibility Statement: 1) What personally connects you to this topic? 2) What type of research have you done to establish credibility?
D. Thesis & Preview of Main Points: (this preview should reinforce the mode you have selected)
1. First, I will describe …
2. Second, I will examine …
3. Third, I will discuss…
II. Body
A. First Main Point – Statement of the FIRST main point; you should not use a source in this sentence.
1. Idea of development or support for the FIRST main point
2. Support material (ex: statistics, quotation, etc.- cite source)
B. Transition: (Required) Statement of movement that looks back (internal summary) and looks forward (preview).
C. Second Main Point – Statement of SECOND main point. Do not use a source in this statement.
1. Idea of development or support for the SECOND main point
2. Support material (ex: statistics, quotation, etc. – cite source)
E. Transition: (Required) Statement of movement that looks back (internal summary) and looks forward (preview).
F. Third Main Point: Statement of THIRD main point. Do not use a source in this statement.
1. Idea of development or support for the THIRD main point
2. Support material (ex: statistics, quotation, etc.- cite source)
III. 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. 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
Attach a reference page, which must include your 3 sources/references (oral citations in your speech)
MLA format or APA format.
Review the following content page: APA/MLA Format for Outline
Electronic sources must be authoritative and credible. Sources from the .com domain are not to be used unless authorship is verifiable and authoritative. (.edu,
.gov, or .org domains are acceptable.) Remember you may only use on source from the internet.
Be sure to make sure that the references are in Alphabetical order.
Double-Spaced; all references should be double-spaced and indented.
Make sure to provide all necessary information in the references.
Make sure you include a minimum of 3 sources for the Informative speech.

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