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COMM 301 (Thornton-Sides)

COMM 301 (Thornton-Sides)

Assignment

Informative Speech

Your Informative Speech will be during Week 10  (3/20 - 3/23).  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 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.