1. Organization and Citing Your Sources/ Event Speech

2. Types of Outlines
Working
Formal
Key Word

3. Ways to Organize the Body
Time (Chronological)
Spatial
Topical
Star Pattern
Wave Pattern
Comparative (compare or contrast)

4. Problem/Solution
Cause/Effect or Effect/Cause

5. AMTOBUL
Introduction (AMTO)
Body (B)
Conclusion (UL)

6. The Introduction Attention-getter Motivation Thesis Statement
Overview of Body

7. The Conclusion Last chance to win us over
Sum up and restate thesis (Underview)
Memorable final thought (Last Thought)

8. Transitions or going from Point A to point B
Signals: “My next point is.....”
Internal Summaries: “Now we have seen how this law began.”
Transitions: “Bobby Kennedy’s death changed politics in the late 1960s, but it also had a lasting impact on history.”

9. And now for a transition.......
Once you have organized your speech into an introduction, body, and conclusion, and you have added transitions and internal summaries, you must next consider giving credit for the information you use.

10. Verbal Citations
After you leave class you can find examples of how to orally cite your sources on page 290 of your textbook.
Following are some examples of basic guidelines:

11. If citing a source, not a person, tell us:
What the source is, the title of the article, and the date.
“CNN, in a broadcast titled “Last Ditch Efforts,” on April 15, 2010, tells us that....”

12. If citing a person, tell us the source, the date, and the person’s qualifications.
Trudi Peterson, a Professor of Communication Studies at Monmouth College, cited this statistic in a study she did in the Fall of 2009.

13. If Citing a Website,
Tell us the name of the website and when you visited it. You don’t need to give its URL. “The ESPN website, which I checked out on September 1, 2010, stated that….”

14. What needs to be cited? Statistics Dates (unless obvious) Quotations
Information that is so specific it’s not generally known so you needed to look up
Unusual interpretations of events

15. Let’s Look at an Example…
“I Dream Things that Never Were and Say, ‘Why Not?’”
Introduction: One of the AMTOBUL points is missing. Which one?
Where do you see the thesis and where else could it be placed?

16. In the Body of the Outline:
Is there enough or too much background on Kennedy?
Is there a good balance between the event’s details and its significance?
Are there sources cited on the outline?

17. Conclusion Too Short? Should it repeat the thesis or no?
Does it get in the AMTOBUL required parts?

18. Bibliography
This part of your outline does NOT have to go in to turnitin.com The style is MLA.
But it should be turned in with your outline when you come to class to give your speech.
Use this Kennedy as an example of how to write your bibliography.

23. Sum Up Outlines AMTOBUL Outline Transition phrases Verbal Citations
Sample Outline and its parts
And last, we’ll move to turnitin.com