This document provides guidance on developing effective introductions, conclusions, and speeches overall. It recommends that introductions get the audience's attention, introduce the subject, give a reason to listen, establish credibility, and preview main points. Conclusions should summarize the central idea memorably, motivate a response like encouraging action, and provide closure by referring back to the introduction. Speeches should have a clear topic, purpose, central idea/thesis, organizational pattern, main points and subpoints to develop a coherent argument.

1. BA SEM VI
COM.ENGLISH
SPEECHES
BY
PROF. SNEHA MOHURLE

2. Purposes of Introductions
In the first 10% of your speech, you must:
 Get the Audience’s Attention
 Introduce the Subject
 Give the Audience a Reason to Listen
 Establish Your Credibility
 Preview Your Main Points

3. Methods for Developing Introductions
1. Use Illustrations or Anecdotes
2. Provide Startling Facts or Statistics
3. Use Quotations
4. Use Humor
5. Ask Questions
6. Refer to Historical Events
7. Use Personal References

4. Purposes of Conclusions
1. Summarize the Speech
2. Reemphasize the Central Idea in a Memorable
Way
3. Motivate the Audience to Respond
 Persuasive: encourage audience to think a certain
way or take action
4. Provide Closure

5. Methods for Developing Conclusions
 Can use the same techniques used for the
introduction (illustrations, quotations, etc.)
 Very Important: Refer to the Introduction!
 Issue an Inspirational Appeal or Challenge
 Appropriate for persuasive speeches

6. Developing
Your Speech

7. Writing the Speech
 Select Organizational Pattern
 Select Main Points
 Subdivide Main Points into Subpoints

8. Developing Your Speech
 Topic Selection
 General Purpose: To Persuade
 Specific Purpose
 Behavioral objective—the specific behavior you expect from
your audience
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 “At the end of my speech, the audience will be able to…”
 Explain, list, describe, write (not understand, believe, know, feel,
etc.)

9. Central Idea (a.k.a. Thesis)
 One-sentence summary of speech
 Focuses on the content of the speech
 Should communicate a single idea
 Look for logical divisions (main points)
 Look for multiple reasons why central idea is true or false
 Look for a series of steps that supports the central idea
(chronological progression)

10. Example
Topic: Boycotting Bluth’s Original Frozen Banana Stand
General Purpose: To persuade
Specific Purpose: At the end of my speech, the audience
will be able to list the reasons why they should boycott
Bluth’s Original Frozen Banana Stand
Central Idea: Bluth’s Original Frozen Banana Stand poses a
hazard for the residents of Orange County and should be
boycotted