Select and Narrow Your Topic
Strategies for Selecting a Topic
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Narrow a topic so that it can be thoroughly discussed within the time limits allotted for a specific assignment.
Example
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Determine Your General Purpose
Determine Your Specific Purpose and Generate Your Main Ideas
Specific PurposesWhat you want your audience to do at the end of your speech – not what you, the speaker, will do.
“At the end of my speech, my audience will be able to . . .” Use a verb that names an observable action (list, explain, describe, write – not know, understand, believe. |
Formulating Your Specific Purpose
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It's Your Turn
Now it's your turn to select your topic, determine your general purpose and specific purpose.
Using the what you've learned about topics, specific and general purposes, complete the activity provided.
Using the what you've learned about topics, specific and general purposes, complete the activity provided.
Generating Main Ideas
The next step after determining your topic, general purpose, and specific purpose, is to generate the main ideas of your speech and to begin to develop them with supporting material from your research.
Following the steps in activity provided, determine the main points of your speech, what information you will need, and where you will find that information.
Following the steps in activity provided, determine the main points of your speech, what information you will need, and where you will find that information.