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Outline One:

General Purpose:  To Actuate.

Specific Speech Purpose:  The audience member will agree to boycott the 1999 NBA season.

Central Idea:   There are many reasons why we should do other things instead of watching basketball.

Main Idea One:   Neither the players nor the owners deserve our loyalty.

Main Idea Two:  College Basketball is just as good.

Main Idea Three:  The players are spoiled babies.

True or False.

1.True  False   The central Idea is sufficiently specific to need no improvement (If yes, go to the next outline).

2.True  False   Main Idea one would be a better focus.

3.True  False   Main Idea two would be a better focus.

4.True  False   If Main Idea one was the focus, main idea three could still be a main idea.

5.True  False  If main idea two was the focus, main idea one could still be a main idea.

6.True  False   If main idea two was the focus, main idea three could still be a main idea.
 
 
 

Outline Two:

General Idea:  To Inform.

Specific Speech Purpose: The audience member will learn the basic rules of chess.

Central Idea:  Chess has a grand history dating back to the days of Marco Polo.

Main Idea One:  The game came to us from the Chinese.

Main Idea Two:  It was adapted to western practice.

Main Idea Three:  The object is to capture the opposing king.

Main Idea Four:  The game takes even the best player a lifetime to master.
 

True or False:

7.True  False   Using this central idea is a good way to motivate the listener to want to learn.

8.True  False  All of the ideas fit, but three and four should be reversed.

9.True  False   The specific purpose needs to be changed to"will learn ABOUT chess to allow for the focus  on history.

10.True  False   The speaker should keep Main Idea three as the CI and get rid of everything else.

11.True  False    The speaker should keep Main Idea four and get rid of everything else.

12.True  False   The central idea should simply read "Chess has a grand history."