Research Guides: COMM 301 (Thornton-Sides): Assignment

Assignment

Informational Speech

Your Informative Speech will be during Week 9 (10/16 & 10/18).

Here are the following requirements for your presentation.

You must speak for 6 minutes. I encourage to you to review the Informational Speech Rubric to see specifics on grading!!
Your topic must informative
You must include verbal citations within your speech
You must have two visual aids (typically Google doc, PowerPoint etc)
- One should be a picture
- One should be a graph
  - You must cite your source and where you got your information or graphic design on the slide ie: SPCA. This reference is usually in the corner of the slide.
  - You cannot have two of the same type of visual aids ie: two pictures or two graphs.
You need to have four (4) sources for this speech
- 2 of the 4 sources must be from a scholarly journal. (Go to our online library and schedule an apt with an librarian if you need help)
- Outline will be in APA Format -Use Sample Format Provided: Files, Helpful Files, APA Example.
  - This Outline in a template, keep the outline format and insert your own information.
  - You must use this APA outline for this speech. Do not use the outline you used in your Introduction Speech.
- Informative Outline Rubic
You will turn in a Work Cited or Reference Page - Files: Helpful Files, Example Reference Page
You can also check with Owl PurdueLinks to an external site. regarding questions for APA format
SCC Library Research Guide for APA: https://researchguides.scc.losrios.edu/ld.php?content_id=15690528Links to an external site.

Informative Topic

Below is a sample list of topics for your Informative Speech. You are NOT limited to these topics. Remember if you think "this might not be school appropriate" it probably isn't. If you want to run your topic by me please send me an email. :)