Informative Speech Outline

Title: Origami – poetry of paper

Topic: Origami, its history and types

Specific purpose:To inform the audience about the evolution of origami and its contemporary forms

Thesis statement: Origami, Japanese art of paper-folding, has become world-wide spread.

Introduction

Attention material:Experience – event happened during travelling.

Credibility material:My earlier fondness of origami.

Relevance:Possible use of it.

Thesis statement:Origami has developed from Japanese practice of paper folding into one of the most wide-spread form of contemporary art.

Preview:Today I am going to tell you about the art of origami. First, I will cover briefly the point of its history. Then I will define two main types of origami: a simple origami and the modular origami. Finally, I will clarify in what way origami can be useful to you.

Transition: So, let us have a look at the history of origami.

Body

1.In the origins, origami was used only for special religious occasions, but now it is one of the most popular arts not only in Japan, but all over the world.

A. Origins: Ancient use of origami during religious ceremonies.

B. Evolution: Changes in origami in the XX century.

Transition: Now, I will tell you about two main techniques of origami.

2.There are two main techniques of origami.

A. Simple origami.

B. Modular origami.

a. What module is?

b. Possible types of modules and its combinations (e.g. Sonobe module and triangular module).

Transition: After being acquainted with the types of origami, it would be useful to know how to apply origami in you everyday life.

3. Origami can be used in different ways depending on a situation to make your life more aesthetic.

A. Use it as a present.

B. Use it as a box or container for a present.

C. Use it as decoration.

Transition: So, let us conclude what we have learned today.

Conclusion

Summary statement:Now you have quite sufficient information about origami, its history and modern forms.

Restated thesis:In the origins, origami was used only for special religious occasions, but now it is one of the most popular arts not only in Japan, but all over the world.

Concluding remark:I hope you have learnt something new and got interested in the art of paper folding. If you have, I can share some useful books and links that would help you to do the first steps in origami.

Sample 3

Informative Speech Outline

Title: The Best Universities in the World

Topic area: The Best Universities in the World (According to Qs Rating System)

Specific purpose: to inform the audience about the world university rating, list top-10 of the best ones and give some information about them.

General purpose: to inform about the top of the world best universities

Thesis statement: The best world universities are determined by such rating system as QS World University Ranking.

Introduction

Attention getter: All of you must have heard about different ratings of world universities. And for sure you’ve heard a lot of time about very famous universities like Harvard, Stanford, Cambridge, Yale and a lot of others. I want to present to you the latest rating based upon QS World University Ranking of the current year.

Relevance: I am convinced that all the students care about the image of the university they study in. Even if our university is not in Top 20, it certainly should be interesting for anyone just to find out what universities are reckoned to be among the best ones. I suppose the following information will be informative for you.

Credibility: The position in rating determines a university’s reputation. I faced a lot of inadequate reactions to the university I studied in. And I think it’s unfair when people judge the thing they don’t really know from the inside. And at the same time there are some universities that are in sympathy with people and experts. So I am concerned about this issue grounding in my personal experience. I used the information given on the official web-side of the QS World University Ranking.

Preview:Iwould like firstly to mark out one particular rating system – QS World Ranking. Then I will list top-20 from it. And I’m going to give brief descriptions of some of them.

So let’s start our research. (Transition to the body)

Body

I. What is QS World University Rankings?

A. A range of performance indicators of QS estimation.

B. What are QS stars?

Now I will present you the latest rating of world universities…(transition)

II. Top-20 best Universities according to the latest rating (supported by visual)

These universities are very famous and I suppose you should know what they are. I will give you brief description on the first ones. (transition)

III. Brief descriptions of the following universities:

· Cambridge

· Harvard

· Stanford

Now you know a little bit about such universities as…(transition)

Conclusion

Summary: Maybe you will decide to make your education really valuable and prestigious – in this case you already know where best to enter.

Concluding remarks:

· Of course, these universities are really outstanding and give you 90 per cent of guarantee of getting a good prestigious job, but to some degree their images are a bit pompous and overestimated.

· And certainely not everyone who graduates from these universities is supersmart. There are thousands of people who graduede “bad universities” and who are not sillier then those who are from “good universities”.

· This rating is very formal ranking of the best but their images are inviolable and commonly accepted.

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