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Your Name: _________________________ ID # XXXXXXXX

Section #: XX Instructor Name: ____________________________

Specific Purpose: To tell my audience _____________________________________________

INTRODUCTION

ATTENTION GRABBER

[Can use questions, quote, narrative, personal examples, etc. that will grab your audience’s attention to your topic.]

AUDIENCE RELEVANCE:

[Why is the career/major important? How is your career/major going to affect us (either directly or indirectly)?]

SPEAKER CREDIBILITY:

[Anything that shows you’re a credible person. Why should your audience listen to you?]

THESIS STATEMENT:

[Complete sentence that expresses the speaker’s most important idea, or key point, about a topic]

ENUMERATED PREVIEW:

[Give your audience a brief preview of the presentation: “1, then 2, then 3…” What are you going to talk about?]

BODY

I. Main point 1 to support Thesis

a. Sub-Point (Reasoning)

i. Evidence to support your main-point (IN-TEXT CITATION)

b. Sub-Point (Reasoning)

i. Evidence to support your main-point (IN-TEXT CITATION)

c. Sub-Point (Reasoning)

i. Evidence to support your main-point (IN-TEXT CITATION)

TRANSITION:

[Signal your audience of a new main point. Find a smooth transition, find a connection between first main point and second point, and don’t be abrupt]

II. Main point 2 to support Thesis

a. Sub-Point (Reasoning)

i. Evidence to support your main-point (IN-TEXT CITATION)

b. Sub-Point (Reasoning)

i. Evidence to support your main-point (IN-TEXT CITATION)

c. Sub-Point (Reasoning)

i. Evidence to support your main-point (IN-TEXT CITATION)

TRANSITION:

[again, find a natural-seeming connection between the second main point and the third main point]

III. Main point 3 to support Thesis

a. Sub-Point (Reasoning)

i. Evidence to support your main-point (IN-TEXT CITATION)

b. Sub-Point (Reasoning)

i. Evidence to support your main-point (IN-TEXT CITATION)

c. Sub-Point (Reasoning)

i. Evidence to support your main-point (IN-TEXT CITATION)

CONCLUSION

REPEAT THESIS STATEMENT

[Rephrase your written thesis statement]

SUMMARY:

[Brief overview or summary of what you just talked about. No new information is presented here! You are merely reiterating the points you’ve already introduced. As an example, you possibly could tick off the main points or other memorable information.]

CLINCHER:

[Appealing to your audience and leaving a remark or meaningful quote that they can remember. Bring your audience back to the introduction story, touch on your stated purpose, and leave them with something to think about (in some cases it is appropriate to move them – emotionally and physically)]

REFERENCES (APA style)

Author’s last name, first initial. (year). Title of article. Name of journal, volume(issue), pp-pp. [SCHOLARLY ARTICLE]

Author’s last name, first initial., last name, first initial. second initial. & last name, first initial., second initial. (year). Title of book. City, State: Publishing company [BOOK]