COMM-2500 Chapter 11: Textbook Notes

• School: Clemson University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM-2500
• Professor: Vanessa Condon

Document Summary

Probably you will use two kinds of outlines for your speeches one very detailed, for the planning stage, and one very brief, for the delivery of the speech. The preparation outline is an outline that helps your prepare the speech. Writing a preparation outline means putting your speech together deciding what you will say in the introduction, how you will organize the main points and supporting materials in the body, and what you will say in the conclusion. A relatively uniform system for preparation outlines has developed. The specific purpose statement should be a separate unit that comes before the outline itself. Some instructors prefer that the central idea be given immediately after the purpose statement. Others prefer that it be given and identified in the text of the outline. If you label the parts of your speech, you will be sure that you indeed have an introduction and conclusion and have accomplished the essential objectives of each.