Topic Selection Choosing Your Topic

Topic SelectionChoosing Your Topic • Topics can come from…Subjects you already know • Subjects you’re interested in • Issues about which you hold strong beliefs and opinions • Several brainstorming techniques • Settle on a topic as soon as possible

Determine General Purpose • Informative, speakers act as teachers • Persuade, speakers act as advocates

Formulate a Thesis • Should indicate what the speaker wants the audience to know or believe after the speech • 5 Tips • Full sentence • Statement - not a question • Avoid figurative language • Should NOT contain 2 or more unrelated ideas • Should NOT be too vague or general

Preview Refines and Sharpens the Thesis • Concise statement of what the speaker expects to say in the speech • Encapsulates main points • May be written later in the speech process • 4 Criteria • Full sentence • Not a question • Avoid figurative language • Shouldn’t be to vague or general

Topic Selection Choosing Your Topic

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