Informative Speech Outline

My Speech Date: ____________________________

The primary purpose of informative speaking is to help clarify a complex process, idea or event
for your audience. In other words, you are to inform/teach us about something or how to do
something. What you choose to inform us about can be as simple or as complicated as you like,
however it should be something interesting to the audience and therefore not common
knowledge. It should speak to issues of social, community or cultural relevance. It should be
something that your audience will find meaningful (i.e., something they might actually be able to
do or want to do upon hearing your speech, something that may affect us, something that could
benefit our lives). In other words, you should teach your audience how to do something that will
help them better engage in their community, that will help them make a positive difference, or
that will help them develop a clearer understanding of the diverse cultures that comprise their
community. The speech should still be divided into three main points. You will integrate three
outside sources into your speech to support or engage us about the topic.

Informative Speech Organization

Chronological, Spatial, Topical, Narrative, or Cause and Effect

Supporting Materials
• Narratives
• Examples
• Definitions
• Testimony
• Facts
• Statistics

Informative Speech Outline Rubric

_5_I have used full, single sentences (not paragraphs)
_5_I have an effective attention getter
_5_I have a thesis with three main points
_5_I have a recap of my three main points
_5_I have an effective clincher
_5_I have proper numeration (I, A, 1, a., etc.)
_5_I have proper indentation to see my points and subpoints clearly
_5_I have effective transitions
_5_I have proofread for spelling and grammatical errors
_5_I have cited a minimum of at least three sources

Total: ____ /__50_

Informative Outline
Topic: Dating apps
Organizational Pattern: Topical

Introduction
Attention Getter: One in ten partnered adults met there S.O through a dating app.
Purpose: To educate people aboue how dating apps work and how they can be skewed
agasint you.
Thesis: to inform you about the benefits, the downsides and how you can make the most
out of your online dating expierence.
Transition: With 3/10 adults using dating apps at some point in there life its becoming even
more common for people to begin using it.

Body
I. (1st Main Point) Dating websites provide a lot of benefits especially for convience and
meeting similar minded people.

A. Dating apps provide people who are lonely and have diffculties socializing the
ability to still have a dating life.
1. According to the pew reasearch center 42% of adults have said that apps
have made online dating easier. With 22% saying its made it more diffcult.
2. The ability to pickup up a phone and have a date for next friday is incredibly
benefcial in todays society. Especially with the disspearence of third spaces as well as more
people working/spending time online.
B. Its also an incredible tool for marginilized people to meet one another.
1. Apps like Taimai and grinder allow for members of the lqbtq to more easily
connect with one another.
2. Lgbtq adults also are more likely to use dating apps then there straight
counterparts.

Transition:

II. (2nd Main Point)

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B.
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Transition:

III. (3rd Main Point)

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B.
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Transition:
Conclusion
Recap:
Audience Outcome:
Clincher (a call to action):
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