Sample Speech Outline Assignment

Sample Speech Outline
Sample Speech Outline

Sample Speech Outline

Order Instructions:

Speech Two is designed to be a more formal Persuasive Speech. You should pick a side of the issue and work to persuade your audience, through outside research, why they should support that side of the issue.

Students are to research the topic of the death penalty and are to choose a side to argue. If a student decides to argue for the continued application of the death penalty they should argue their points and their reasoning for the death penalty, pointing out the positive aspects and the benefits of such a sentence. If, however, students decide to argue against the death penalty they should argue their reasoning for abolishing the sentence and the negative aspects of the punishment.

Sample Speech Outline

Title of Speech

Purpose: (Your purpose for this speech)
Thesis: (Main Argument that will be covered)

I. Introduction

A. Greeting your audience (simple greeting will suffice)
B. Attention grabber (should inflict emotion or raised attention)
C. Credibility statement (why you should be trusted?)
D. Thesis statement (a sentence detailing the subject that will be provided in speech)
E. Preview of main points (what the main points are that you will go over)
Transition (signals the transition from the introduction to the body)

II. Body

A. Main point 1 (Detail the first main point)

1. Subordinate point (Detail any subordinate points if necessary)

a. Support (any supporting documents or evidence)
b. Support (any supporting documents or evidence)

2. Subordinate point (Detail any subordinate points if necessary)

a. Support (any supporting documents or evidence)
b. Support (any supporting documents or evidence)

Transition (signals the transition from the first main point to the second main point)

B. Main point 2 (Detail the second main point)

1. Subordinate point (Detail any subordinate points if necessary)

a. Support (any supporting documents or evidence)
b. Support (any supporting documents or evidence)

2. Subordinate point (Detail any subordinate points if necessary)

a. Support (any supporting documents or evidence)
b. Support (any supporting documents or evidence)

Transition (signals the transition from the second main point to the third main point)

C. Main point 3 (Detail the third main point)

1. Subordinate point (Detail any subordinate points if necessary)

a. Support (any supporting documents or evidence)
b. Support (any supporting documents or evidence)

2. Subordinate point (Detail any subordinate points if necessary)

a. Support (any supporting documents or evidence)
b. Support (any supporting documents or evidence)

Transition (signals the transition from the body to the conclusion)

III. Conclusion

A. Signal closing (signal that you are concluding your speech)
B. Restate thesis (restate your thesis statement from earlier)
C. Review main points (briefly go back over all of your main points)

1. Main point 1 (briefly restate main points)
2. Main point 2
3. Main point 2

D. Memorable statement or call for action (your final statement to the audience)
E. Thank the audience for listening (a simple thank you for your time will suffice)

SAMPLE ANSWER

Speech on Banning Capital Punishment in Prisons

Purpose: I want to essentially make you understand the need for governments globally to ban capital punishments, in judicial courts and prisons.

Thesis: globally, death penalty has contributed to mass loss of lives, and this practice should be stopped and controlled.

  1. Introduction
  2. Good morning good people,
  3. I am here to walk with you into this journey of capital punishment.
  4. I am an established lawyer specializing in criminal justice, and so I understand deeply the implications of allowing capital justice to continue in our courts of justices.
  5. The recommended policy demands that the judicial systems should carry out a thorough but independent investigation to establish the grounds of any capital offense and whether the culprits were genuinely involved or not.
  6. Preview of main points (what the main points are that you will go over)

I will mention these three points that support why capital punishment should be abolished: enacting proper protocols in establishing the guiltiness of the suspects, capital punishment is irreversible and this discourages wrongful convictions, and death penalty affects the life of victims and their relatives as well.

 

  1. Body
  2. Main point 1

The gravity of rampant deaths witnessed in prisons across the world when suspects are innocently and unjustly exposed to prosecution through death penalty is of a great concern. Governments can use various methods and enact considerable policies to help in banning the capital punishment, which has contributed to the mistaken executions of innocent people. One such provision is to enact proper protocols in establishing the guiltiness of those who have been charged with capital offences and are yet to face the controversial death penalty.

  1. Main point 2

It is arguably true that not everyone deserves death, but some should just die. It is believable that capital punishment restraints criminal activities; nonetheless, it is irreversible and this discourages wrongful convictions. It is recommendable to enact proper policies to streamline the execution of death penalty (Perry, 2007; Bohm, 2011). The death penalty policy is crucial since it affects the lives of not only the convicted individuals but also the relatives and the nation at large.

  1. Main point 3

It is justifiable when the rightly accused is punished. Judicial courts should not impose capital punishment for everybody but only on definite cases where the culprit is proven guilty beyond any reasonable doubt and pleads guilty of the offense. For instance, thieves of petty commodities definitely do not merit capital punishment (Bohm, 2011). Conversely, a determined murderer, engaged in killing others deserves death penalty; however, this should be done under strict laws, federal policies, and set procedures that establishes the guiltiness of the accused and eliminates the killing of the innocents (Perry, 2007).

III. Conclusion

As I conclude, I would stress that the recommendation that governments should enact a policy that requires thorough independent investigations and multiple trials to establish whether one is truly involved in a capital offense, and if so, other punishment alternatives should be prioritized rather that rush into the death penalty, will stop the mistaken executions of innocent people.

  1. Memorable statement/call for action-As I conclude I call upon governments and concerned state agencies to ensure there is no capital punishment in prisons and judicial courts today henceforth. Activists bodies can also engage into creating awareness to the public about this evil, and launch campaigns that would create pressure to those governments that are still practicing death penalty.
  2. I greatly thank all of you for your attention and time to my speech. I hope that this speech would bring the necessary remedy to all and sundry, concerning this prevalent issue

References

Perry, M. J. (2007). Toward a theory of human rights: religion, law, courts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Bohm, R. M. (2011). Deathquest: an introduction to the theory and practice of capital punishment in the United States (4th ed.). Amsterdam: Anderson Pub./Elsevier.

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