Identify your main points for your speech

Determine the appropriate number of main points for

your speech
Organize your main points according to five different
patterns
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Use four different kinds of connectives in your speech
Cite sources properly in your speech
In this presentation you are expected to
learn the following:

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research


Use your thesis statement
Identify your Main Points

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Number of Main Points

Even as I was being born- in an
airplane over China- it seems
Ive been destined to travel.

My love of water will take me
into the navy and continue to
nurture this nomadic spirit of
mine.
I was born in the air over China so I
have dual citizenship.
Ive lived in many different cities,
states, and countries.
I love to do anything that pertains to
water.
Ill graduate next June and travel with
friends for the summer.
After that, Ill join the navy.
From there, I hope to become an
aquatic research scientist for a
university.

Specific purpose: To inform my
audience of the history of theatrical
lighting.
Thesis statement: The history of
theatrical lighting can be divided into
three periods: before electricity, the
discovery of electricity and the
invention of light bulbs, and the
invention of lighting instruments for the
stage.
Before electricity, actors and
directors depended on the sun, oil
lamps and torches, and chandeliers
to light their stages.
With the invention of electricity cam
the invention of light bulb, a
tremendous boon to lighting stages.
New instruments, called the
ellipsoidal, the fresnel, and the
intelabeam, allowed lighting
technicians to create more effects
with theatrical lighting.
Specific purpose: To inform
my audience of the process of
making scrapbook.
Thesis statement: There are
four steps to making a quality
scrapbook.
Collect the materials you
want to put into the book.
Decide on the order of your
materials.
Arrange the materials in the
book.
Cover or bind the book.

Thesis Statement: The first twenty
years of my life have been nomadic
ones, and this lifestyle is likely to
continue for some time.

Even as I was being born- in an
airplane over China- it seems Ive
been destined to travel.

My love of water will take me into
the navy and continue to nurture
this nomadic spirit of mine.
Thesis Statement: I lived an interesting
life thus far and have goals for the
future.

I was born in the air over China so I
have dual citizenship.
Ive lived in many different cities,
states, and countries.
I love to do anything that pertains to
water.
Ill graduate next June and travel
with friends for the summer.
After that, Ill join the navy.
From there, I hope to become an
aquatic research scientist for a
university.