GOAL: Speeches must be delivered extemporaneously. This course is not about "reading" a speech, but delivering ideas to an audience. Reading leads to a disconnect between the speaker and the audience. Speaking from outlined notes leads to a "conversation" between the speaker and audience. To create this connection between audence and speaker the student presenter must organize a variety of ideas into main points, and each main point must likewise be organized into sub points and so on. See in your Concise Handbook - Chapter 15 "Outlining Your Speech" AND in your online textbook Capter 13 "Outlining and Editing Your Speech" pp. 243-60.
Finally, the ideas must be connected with appropriate transitions.

INSTRUCTIONS: Use the following links to learn about outlining concepts.

Step 1 a Click on the following JJAY library link and study the outline. When done hit the BACK button to return to this page --
Basic Outlining

Step 2 a

Click here and complete the outline as directed --

When done hit the BACK button to return to this page --

Step 3 à
Instructions:
Examine and write about the outlining concepts in Chapter 15 of your textbook . Be sure to look at the definition of a Preparation Outline and Speaking Outline. Briefly answer the following:

1. What are the differences?
2. Why is it necessay to do two outlines?
3. How would you place a Speaker's Outline onto cards?

Step 4
instructions:
As the defense attorney in a car theft case, you need to prepare your closing argument to the jury before it begins its deliberations. After reviewing evidence from the trial, you decide to stress the following points to demonstrate the innocence of your client:

a. The stolen car was found abandoned three hours after the theft with the engine still warm; at the time the car was found, your client was at the airport to meet the flight of a friend who was flying into town.

b. Lab analysis of muddy shoe prints on the floor mat of the car indicates that the prints came from a size 13 shoe; your client wears a size 10.

c. Lab analysis shows the presence of cigarette smoke in the car, but your client does not smoke.

d. The only eyewitness to the crime, who was 50 feet from the car, said the thief “looked like” your client; yet the eyewitness admitted that at the time of the theft she was not wearing her corrective lenses, which had been prescribed for improving distance vision.

e. The car was stolen at about 1 p.m . ; your client testified that he was in a small town 175 miles away at 11 a.m

f. In a statement to police, the eyewitness described the thief as blond; your client has red hair.

As you work on the outline of your speech, you see that these points can be organized into three main points, each with two supporting points. Compose an outline that organizes the points in this manner.

HAND-IN Steps 3 and 4 OF THIS SKILLS UNIT.