SPC 2608 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Infinitive, Literal And Figurative Language, Thesis Statement

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Communication Sciences and Disorders
• Course: SPC 2608
• Professor: Sarah Hardison

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Chapters 5 and 15: selecting a topic and purpose and. For a speech you will be given a general purpose of what the speech needs to do: to inform: Ex) 4 object speech, demonstration speech, group: to persuade: speech. Designed to create, reinforce, or change beliefs. You have to choose a specific purpose and central idea. Specific purpose: states what the speaker wants to specifically accomplish, this is the goal for your speech, guidelines: Avoid being vague: questions to ask while developing your purpose: Central idea: a one sentence statement of what you will talk about, encapsulating the major idea of the speech, thesis or summary of the speech, guidelines: Make sure it is in a full sentence. Have it as a statement, not a question. Can be about: objects, events, concepts, processes. Anything that happens or is regarded as happening. Anything about a belief, theory, notion, principle, etc. A systematic series of actions leading to a specific result.