personal experience speech outline

Personal Interest Outline Template

after your interest is approved, begin writing your outline using the Personal Interest Outline Template attached here. Review the information in “Speech Tutorials” for assistance with the Introduction, Transitions, Body Point formatting, and Conclusion. This is a FORMAL outline, so you should have complete sentences throughout the outline. You will not have a Bibliography or Works Cited for this speech.

Download this template and fill out the spaces for your outline. You do not have to stick exactly to the numbers and letters provided. It’s just set up so that you don’t have to start an outline from scratch.   You are REQUIRED to use this and will submit it with your speech for a grade!  If you are delivering on campus, you must give your outline to the instructor PRIOR to beginning your speech (if your instructor offers the on-campus option).   DELETE WORDS LIKE “SUPPORTING DETAIL” OR “POINT 1” AND REPLACE THEM WITH COMPLETE SENTENCES.

Name:_________________________________

Instructions: Fill in the blanks with your information and sentences. You should delete anything in parentheses in the text of the speech because those are just directions to you and REMOVE the parentheses. Those are just there so that you know what to write in place of them. Replace them with your words, in complete sentences. The only thing that should remain is the format: I. A., B., C., 1., 2., etc. and the indentations. Fill in the line for the Transition statement. It does not need to have a letter or number in front of it. You can have more main points than shown here, you can also have more or less supporting details or sub-supporting details than shown here.

Fill in this Information for the instructor:

*Topic:

*General Purpose: To Inform

*Specific Purpose: By the end of my speech, my audience will….

*Do NOT say this information ^ out loud. Start your speech at your Attention getter.

(Type the Title of Your Speech Here)

Introduction

1. (Attention Getter: opening line of your entire presentation)
2. (Credibility and Thesis Statement(s): Who you are, what your object is and what it will represent, What your speech will be about)

• (Preview your main points: First, I’ll tell you about, Second, I’ll tell you about, and Last, I’ll tell you about…)

Transition statement:

Body

1. (Write your first main point here)
   1. (Write your first Supporting Detail to first main point here)
      1. (Write any Sub-supporting detail here, you fill in or eliminate as you need)
      2. (Write any Sub-supporting detail here, you fill in or eliminate as you need)
   2. (Write your second Supporting Detail to first main point here)
      1. (Write any Sub-supporting detail here, you fill in or eliminate as you need)
      2. (Write any Sub-supporting detail here, you fill in or eliminate as you need)

Transition statement:

1. (Write your second main point here)
   1. (Write your first Supporting Detail to second main point here—continue the format as shown above)

Transition statement:

Conclusion

1. (Summary of main points – First I told you, second I told you, finally I told you…)
2. (Memorable closing remark)

Works Cited Page 

Books, journal articles, magazines, newspapers, personal interviews, web sites, etc.