Instructions:
Make your informative speech look like the example provided below
and it will be perfect. Follow
the numbering, lettering, source citations, and indentation in the example
outline. You (can’t) use the same topic as the example outline.
Typed
Outline: Submit
a 2-page typed outline in the correct format. Integrate five sources indicated
in bold and parentheses, underline where citations are planned during the
speech (I will be given out loud). Verbal citation of all sources during the
presentation is required (I will be given out loud). Topic should be no more than one to two years old. The information will
be outdated and no longer new. Must use complete
sentences. Refer
to the example outline provided in the link below as I mentioned. Use the outline as a template and format your speech
outline exactly like this example outline provided.
You will need to look for an informative speech topic that is
either
1)
A medical advance. For
example: A new cure for Cancer, new psychological treatments, new medications,
etc.
GO TO THE FOLLOWING WEBSITES TO FIND INFORMATIVE
SPEECH TOPICS for a medical advance:
New Scientist
Links to an external site.
Scientific
AmericanLinks to an external site.
Popular Mechanics
Links to an external site.
Discover Magazine
THE SPEECH SHOULD BE DIVIDED INTO 5 MAIN POINTS:
I) INTRODUCTION
II) RESEARCH ORIGINS
III) CURRENT APPLICATIONS
IV) FUTURE APPLICATIONS
V) CONCLUSION
The speech must have a minimum of 5 sources from newspapers,
magazines, or scholarly journals.
No website/URL sources are allowed. The
sources must be in (parentheses, bold, and underlined) in the
outline you turn in.
If an article is published in the New York Times online, it is
also published in hard copy. Just cite it like a regular published source (According to
the New York Times, January 10, 2021).
What you don’t want to do is say, according to www.newyorktimes.com
If a published magazine is also online, it’s okay; cite it like
a hard copy publication. The date listed with the article is the date it was
published in hard copy.
You are ONLY ALLOWED TO CITE NEWSPAPERS, MAGAZINES, SCHOLARLY
JOURNALS AND BOOKS. NO URL/WEBSITE SOURCES ARE ALLOWED.
