Sample Outlines.

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Outline One: The "My Best Moment" Speech.

Name: Desmond Walker
Section:   
   
Assignment One    
General Purpose: To Convince.  
Specific Speech Purpose: The audience member will agree that I am empathetic.  
   
Central Idea: I talked a teenaged girl out of commiting suicide..
   
Main Idea I: I was a counsellor at "Betsy's" church camp.
  A. I was in college.
B. She was around 13.
Main Idea II:  One evening, she asked if we could talk.
A. We went out onto one of the trails.
B. She confided that she didn't want to go home at the end of the week.
Main Idea III: She told me she was thinking of killing herself when she got home.
A. Our conversation is confidential, but I convinced her to wait a while and see if things got better.
B. I told her to call me if she needed to talk.
C. I gave her a necklace chain that I had been wearing to seal the deal.
Main Idea IV: I did not betray her confidence.
.A. I was accused of by some of the staff of inappropriate behavior with a camper.
B. I almost lost the job.
Main Idea V: She lived happily ever after.
A. An aunt of hers showed me a wedding picture.
B. She was wearing the necklace.

 

 

Outline Two: The Digest Speech.

Name: Shania Twang.
section:  
Assignment Two.  
General Purpose: To Inform.
Specific Speech Purpose: The audience member will gain a basic understanding of the issue of Manned Exploration of Mars.
Central Idea: The question is whether finding proof of life and the possibilit of future colonization outweigh the tremendous costs and dangers of the project..
   
Main Idea I: There is evidence of life on Mars.
  A. NASA-backed study.
1. Magnetotactic bacteria.
2. ALH84001
  B. Scientific American article.
Main Idea II: Mars is potentially habitable.
  A. Carbon-dioxide creation.
B. The Gaia Hypothesis
Main Idea III: Exploring Mars would be expensive.
  A. $450 million per year--unmanned.
B. One sample-return mission--$2 Billion.
Main Idea IV: NASA has not sustained its once famous quality control..
  A. Mars Program Independent Assessment Team.
B. "Kamikazi Scheme."
Sources: Bringing Life to Mars. Scientific American--Online. http://www.sciam.com/1999/0399space/0399mckay.html

MARS PROGRAM ASSESSMENT REPORT OUTLINES ROUTE TO SUCCESS. News Release. NASA, March 28, 2000.

NEW REPORT OFFERS EVIDENCE OF PRIMITIVE LIFE ON MARS. News release. Johnson Space Center. December 13, 2000.

Schrader, A. (Oct. 27, 2000) NASA eases up timetable for Mars Human visit to wait until at least 2020. Denver Post: A1.

Wilford, J.N. (Oct. 27, 2000) Shaken NASA Offers New Plan For Mars Exploration Missions. New York Times: A18.

 

Outline Three: The Demonstration Speech.

Name: Marlowe Liefwaster
General Purpose: To Inform.
Specific Speech Purpose: The audience members will learn how to get the "Terry the Terradactyl" jiggies, in Banjo-Tooie.
Central Idea: If Kazooie has glide and hatch, it is easy.
   
Main Idea I: Make sure Kazooie has Springy Step Shoes, Glide, Taxi Pak and Hatch.
  A. Glide is at Hailfire Peaks.
B. Springy Step Shoes, Taxi Pak and Hatch are in Terrydactyl Land.
Main Idea II: Defeat Terrydactyl.
  A. Follow the trail to the top of the mountain using the spring boots.
B. The nest is right from the exit.
C. Dodge then use grenade eggs.
Main Idea III: Collect the three easy hatchlings.
  A. The pool by the entrance.
B. Unga Bunga's cave.
C. Oogle Boogle cave.
Main Idea IV: Retrieve the big baby.
  A. Go back to the opening by the nest.
B. Turn left instead of right.
C. In the cave, split Banjo and Kazooie.
D. Use glide, then fly to get Kazooie to the egg.
E. Use hatch to hatch the egg.
F. Use Taxi Pak to take the hatchling to Terry.b

 

Outline Four: The Speech to Convince.

Name: Wanda Lou Fernuckle. 
Section: 
Assignment Four 
General Purpose: To Convince.
Specific Speech Purpose: The audience will support repeal of the "Marriage Protection Act."
Central Idea: The act is a violation of our Consitutional liberties.
   
Main Idea I. Gays and lesbians need the legal protections of marriage.
  A. Without it, people can sieze their property.
  B. Without it, they have no emotional security.
   
Main Idea II: Gays and lesbians deserve those protections.
  A. Marriage is private business.
  B. The "special rights" claim is nonsense.
   
Main Idea III: We have no Constitutional right to judge them.
  A. Divorce statistics.
  B. Radical religious agenda.
  C. Conservative political agenda.

 

Outline Five: The Speech to Overcome Resistance.

Name: The Reverend Dr. Barry Morris. 
Section: 
Assignment Five. 
General Purpose: To Actuate.
Specific Speech Purpose: The audience members will join the Church of Barry.
Central Idea: Only through worship of the Communication Deity, can people find true salvation.
   
Main Idea I. Appearance is more important than "reality."
  A. Our senses lie.
  B. Science lies.
   
Main Idea II: Most religions are mind-distorting cults.
  A. Western religions.
  B. Eastern religions.
   
Main Idea III: In rhetoric is bliss.
  A. The purity of self-obsession.
  B. The democracy of the symbol.
  C. The bliss of subservience.
   
Main Idea IV: The Path of What Seems leads to contentment.
  A. No more ambition.
  B. N more greed.
  C. No more lofty expectations.
   
Main Idea V: Worship me.
  A. I am here.
  B. I am pure.
  C. I am the appearance of truth.
   

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