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Speech Outline Template: A Simple Guide to Effective Presentations, Lecture notes of Communication and Presentation Skills

University of New England (UNE)Communication and Presentation Skills

This idea will become your. Thesis Statement and your Audience dictates your Relevance Statement. Sample of Simple Outline. Audience: Topic: Technical Terms:.

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Speech Outline Template
The following is an excerpt from my book, From Student to
Professional, pp. 69-75 (Perrotte, Gino, 2015).
Purchase the full book HERE.
Simple outline for a clear message
Why is it important to have an outline? Because
it organizes your thoughts, helps guide your
writing, and provides you with a speech
manuscript from which you’ll practice. When I
was an undergraduate in college, I thought that
creating an outline was complex because of
having to follow all of the formal rules for Roman
numerals, letters, and numbers. The formal
structure that was intended to help students
organize actually confused me! Now that I
understand why and how to use an outline, I have
simplified the format when outlining a speech. I
find this so much easier. This outline serves as a
basic template with which you can build any
speech.
Where to begin for the outline
Refer to Figure 4 while reading this section. In the
workplace your topic, and to some degree your
audience, will most likely be decided for you
based on your role and the situation. You will
have to build an effective presentation around
this topic for your audience. Fortunately, you will
most likely be at least somewhat familiar with
your topic since it’s likely to be in your
professional field. Because of this, you probably
will have an idea of what you should talk about to
a particular audience. This idea will become your
Thesis Statement and your Audience dictates
your Relevance Statement.
Sample of Simple Outline
Audience:
Topic:
Technical Terms:
Abbreviations:
Introduction
• Introduce Yourself by Name (and title if appropriate)
• Open with Impact
• Thesis
• Relevance Statement
• Preview of Main Points
• Transition to Main Point 1
Body
• Main Point 1 with Sources of Information
• Transition to Main Point 2
• Main Point 2 with Sources of Information
• Transition to Main Point 3
• Main Point 3 with Sources of Information
• Transition to Conclusion
Conclusion
• Summarize Key Ideas for Each Main Point
• For Persuasive Speaking, Use a Call to Action
• Close with Impact
Fig. 4 – Sample of Simple Outline
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Speech Outline Template

The following is an excerpt from my book, From Student to

Professional , pp. 69-75 (Perrotte, Gino, 2015).

Purchase the full book HERE.

Simple outline for a clear message

Why is it important to have an outline? Because it organizes your thoughts, helps guide your writing, and provides you with a speech manuscript from which you’ll practice. When I was an undergraduate in college, I thought that creating an outline was complex because of having to follow all of the formal rules for Roman numerals, letters, and numbers. The formal structure that was intended to help students organize actually confused me! Now that I understand why and how to use an outline, I have simplified the format when outlining a speech. I find this so much easier. This outline serves as a basic template with which you can build any speech. Where to begin for the outline Refer to Figure 4 while reading this section. In the workplace your topic, and to some degree your audience, will most likely be decided for you based on your role and the situation. You will have to build an effective presentation around this topic for your audience. Fortunately, you will most likely be at least somewhat familiar with your topic since it’s likely to be in your professional field. Because of this, you probably will have an idea of what you should talk about to a particular audience. This idea will become your Thesis Statement and your Audience dictates your Relevance Statement. Sample of Simple Outline Audience: Topic: Technical Terms: Abbreviations: Introduction

  • Introduce Yourself by Name (and title if appropriate)
  • Open with Impact
  • Thesis
  • Relevance Statement
  • Preview of Main Points
  • Transition to Main Point 1 Body
  • Main Point 1 with Sources of Information
  • Transition to Main Point 2
  • Main Point 2 with Sources of Information
  • Transition to Main Point 3
  • Main Point 3 with Sources of Information
  • Transition to Conclusion Conclusion
  • Summarize Key Ideas for Each Main Point
  • For Persuasive Speaking, Use a Call to Action
  • Close with Impact Fig. 4 – Sample of Simple Outline

A Thesis is a simple statement of topic. The most basic language of a Thesis Statement is, “Today I am going to talk to you about (topic).” A Relevance Statement usually immediately follows the thesis and tells your audience that they should care about what you will speak about because it has personal value for them. A good Relevance Statement comes from your work of analyzing the audience as discussed in the previous chapter so that you understand how their lives intersect with your topic. The most basic language of a Relevance Statement is, “By the end of this presentation, you will (insert appropriate verb and the value the audience will gain).” The Thesis and Relevance Statement are the start to the body of your speech. So once you have these to guide you, begin with the body. Body That’s right, you begin with the middle of your speech. Once you know what the guts in the body of the speech are, the introduction and conclusion basically write themselves. The body of the speech is made up of your main points. These are the big ideas that you are sharing with your audience. Each big idea is its own main point. You will elaborate on each main point with valuable information from credible sources. Remember to verbally cite each of your sources out loud along with the credentials of the source (if appropriate) at the time you are presenting the piece of information from that source. Citing your VALUEable (see previous chapter section “Analyze credibility”) sources makes you more credible with your audience. The number of main points for a speech depends on the length of the speech and what you want to accomplish. In general, have 3 to 5 main points. Transitions The body of the speech also contains transitions. These are verbal cues (and often also include visual cues such as a change in PowerPoint slide or the speaker moving to a new area of the room) that indicate to the audience that you are moving from one main point (or area of the speech) to the next. Helpful transitions include a recap of what was just covered and an introduction of what’s coming up next. The most basic language of a transition is, “now that we’ve just talked about (previous main point), let’s take a look at (next main point).” Note that you also transition from your introduction into your first main point and from your final main point into your conclusion. Introduction With the body of the speech written, move on to the introduction. You’ve already created the Thesis and Relevance Statements. That just leaves the Open with Impact, and Preview of Main Points. An Open with Impact is directly related to the purpose of the speech and serves to grab your audience’s attention right from the beginning, get them interested, and engage with you and the topic. You might open by asking a question, doing an activity, or telling a story. The Preview of Main Points is simply an in-order list of the main points you will cover during the speech. It serves as a basic road map of where you will be bringing the audience for the presentation. Conclusion Write your conclusion by summarizing the key ideas for each of your main points. This is an important step because audience members tend to remember what they hear first and last. What’s the first thing they hear? Your introduction. And the last? The conclusion. So you want to make sure that you give them important takeaways that adequately summarize the speech. Essentially these takeaways should become your audience’s talking points when someone asks, “what was that presentation about?” Takeaways are just a recap of what you’ve already talked about in the body. Do not present new ideas in the conclusion.

  • 5 times = use your speaker notes to deliver the speech for a group of at least 3 people who are sitting to your left, in front of you, and to your right so that you get used to interacting with all areas of the audience. Again, time each practice and make any necessary adjustments to fit your allocated speaking time limit. Video record yourself speaking to the group and watch each of the five recordings to see where you could improve your delivery.