Please write a specific purpose statement and central idea for an informative speech. Refer to lecture notes (attached below): Selecting a Topic and Informative Speaking. Selecting A Topic And Purpose And Informative Speaking SELECTING A TOPIC AND PURPOSE I. How can you choose a topic? A. Choose something you already know. B. Choose something you want to learn more about, or that you are interested in exploring. C. Choose something you have a strong belief or opinion (current events or controversial issues). D. Brainstorm 1. Nominal Group Technique II. What is a general purpose? A. To Inform B. To persuade III. What is the specific purpose? A. The specific purpose concisely reveals the topic in one sentence. 1. Usually starts with the general purpose IV. What is the central idea or thesis statement? A. A statement of the main points the speaker plans to cover in the speech. Examples General Purpose: To inform Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about three major cities of Turkey. Central Idea: Ankara, Istanbul, and Izmir are three major cities of Turkey that are rich in culture and historical sites. General Purpose: To persuade Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience to become an organ donor. Central Idea: People should choose organ donation because: most religions support the donation of organs, organs are unnecessary after death, and donating organs can save many lives. Informative Speaking I. Informative speaking is extemporaneous-the speaker uses a brief set of notes and chooses the words at the moment of delivery. II. Four types of informative Speaking: A. Speeches about processes (Types of Informative Speeches appropriate for the assignment): B. Speeches about objects C. Speeches about events D. Speeches about concepts III. Guidelines for effective informative speeches: A. Don’t overestimate/underestimate the audience 1. Avoid being too technical. 2. Avoid being too simplistic. B. Relate the subject directly to the audience 1. Personalize ideas C. Work towards clarity and concision 1. Organization Purchase answer to see full attachment Tags: communications racial discrimination informative speech User generated content is uploaded by users for the purposes of learning and should be used following our company’shonor code & terms of service.

MLA In-Text Citations: The Basics

Guidelines for referring to the works of others in your text using MLA style are covered throughout the MLA Handbook and in chapter 7 of the MLA Style Manual. Both books provide extensive examples, so it’s a good idea to consult them if you want to become even more familiar with MLA guidelines or if you have a particular reference question.

BASIC IN-TEXT CITATION RULES

In MLA Style, referring to the works of others in your text is done using parenthetical citations. This method involves providing relevant source information in parentheses whenever a sentence uses a quotation or paraphrase. Usually, the simplest way to do this is to put all of the source information in parentheses at the end of the sentence (i.e., just before the period). However, as the examples below will illustrate, there are situations where it makes sense to put the parenthetical elsewhere in the sentence, or even to leave information out.

General Guidelines

• The source information required in a parenthetical citation depends (1) upon the source medium (e.g. print, web, DVD) and (2) upon the source’s entry on the Works Cited page.
• Any source information that you provide in-text must correspond to the source information on the Works Cited page. More specifically, whatever signal word or phrase you provide to your readers in the text must be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of the corresponding entry on the Works Cited page.

IN-TEXT CITATIONS: AUTHOR-PAGE STYLE

MLA format follows the author-page method of in-text citation. This means that the author’s last name and the page number(s) from which the quotation or paraphrase is taken must appear in the text, and a complete reference should appear on your Works Cited page. The author’s name may appear either in the sentence itself or in parentheses following the quotation or paraphrase, but the page number(s) should always appear in the parentheses, not in the text of your sentence. For example:

Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (263).

Romantic poetry is characterized by the “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (Wordsworth 263).

Wordsworth extensively explored the role of emotion in the creative process (263).

Both citations in the examples above, (263) and (Wordsworth 263), tell readers that the information in the sentence can be located on page 263 of a work by an author named Wordsworth. If readers want more information about this source, they can turn to the Works Cited page, where, under the name of Wordsworth, they would find the following information:

Wordsworth, William. Lyrical Ballads. Oxford UP, 1967.

IN-TEXT CITATIONS FOR PRINT SOURCES WITH KNOWN AUTHOR

For print sources like books, magazines, scholarly journal articles, and newspapers, provide a signal word or phrase (usually the author’s last name) and a page number. If you provide the signal word/phrase in the sentence, you do not need to include it in the parenthetical citation.

Human beings have been described by Kenneth Burke as “symbol-using animals” (3).

Human beings have been described as “symbol-using animals” (Burke 3).

These examples must correspond to an entry that begins with Burke, which will be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of an entry on the Works Cited page:

Burke, Kenneth. Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method. University of California Press, 1966.