Specific Purpose and Thesis Statement

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This week assignment are in three parts:

1. Specific Purpose and Thesis Statement

You are required to develop a topic, general purpose, specific purpose, and a thesis statement for your speech (topic used for Informative and Persuasive).

Be sure to submit this by the due date indicated in the calendar events. Your instructor will reply to you with comments and suggestions.

Examples from your textbook:

Topic: My Craziest Adventure

General purpose: To Entertain

Specific purpose: By the end of my speech, the audience will appreciate the lasting memories that result from an eighteen-year-old visiting New Orleans for the first time.

Thesis statement: New Orleans offers young tourists many opportunities for fun and excitement.

Topic: Renewable Energy

General purpose: To Inform

Specific purpose: By the end of my speech, the audience will be able to explain the basics of using biomass as fuel.

Thesis statement: Biomass is a renewable resource that releases gases that can be used for fuel.

Topic: Privacy Rights

General purpose: To Persuade

Specific purpose: By the end of my speech, my audience will believe that parents should not be able to use tracking devices to monitor their teenage child’s activities.

Thesis statement: I believe that it is a violation of a child’s privacy to be electronically monitored by his or her parents.

2. Pay attention to the news (in the paper, on the Internet, television, or radio). Identify two informative and two persuasive speech topics that are based in current events.

3. Organizing and Outlining Assignment (B)

You are required to develop the outline for your speech. Submit this outline to the instructor. Your instructor may reply to you with comments or suggestions.

Follow the Full Sentence Speaking Outline Sample for final submission.


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