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Video

Select Your Topic:  Consider Your Audience and the Occasion
“Finding Speech Topics”A lecture providing tips for choosing a speech topic, considering the type of speech and the audience.

Outline Your Speech
“Creating a Speech Outline with Jordan Hamon”
The presentation features a step-by-step process of making an outline.

Organize Your Speech
“How to Write a Speech:  Speech Body”
The speaker outlines the three parts describing three main areas of the topic.

Audio

Select Your Topic
“Choosing an Informative Speech Topic”
A lecture on how to choose an informative speech topic, including unsuccessful topics and why they don’t work. 

Outline Your Speech
“How to Make an Outline for Your Speech”
Two cartoon characters discuss making an outline, so although their mouths move, it’s actually only an audio discussion about outline making.

Web Resources

Compose A Thesis Statement
“Developing Your Thesis”
A description of how to craft a speech thesis statement.

Organize Your Speech
“Organize Your Speech”
A discussion of tips and techniques for effectively organizing a speech.

Consider Presentation Aids
“Presentation Aids”
A discussion of how successfully create presentational aids.