You have now read several chapters in your book, and learned about the speech making process. The first several steps in the process are part of the planning stage and include choosing a topic, determining your general purpose and developing a specific purpose and thesis statement. This discussion is designed to help you practice writing specific purpose and thesis statements for pre-determined topics. It is important you understand how to write these correctly because they are a crucial step in the planning process for your speeches and you will write them for every speech you develop in class.
Discussion Instructions: First read the assigned chapters for this week and the document found in your Learning Module on how to write effective specific purpose and thesis statements. Choose three of the general speech topics listed below and narrow each to something usable for a 3-5 minute informative speech. Then write specific purpose and thesis statements for each topic.
Once you have written, and submitted, your three specific purpose and thesis statements, continue the discussion by responding to at least two classmates and providing feedback or suggestions on their statements.
For each of the three topics you choose, your post should look like this example:
EXAMPLE: (remember you will choose three, not just one like this example)
General topic: BAKING
Narrowed Topic: Baking chocolate chip cookies
Specific Purpose Statement: To inform my audience about the steps to baking chocolate chip cookies
Thesis Statement: The steps to baking chocolate chip cookies are gathering the ingredients, mixing the ingredients and baking the cookies.
Topic Choices: Astronomy, Dancing, Ethnic foods, Gambling, Recycling, Exercise, Online gaming, Sexist language, The environment, and Photography.
Also I want you to reply to 4 comments the first two with 100 words and the last two with 25-50 words
