Problem
i. What is your main idea of your speech, or thesis?
ii. What are your intended main points? Remember that you need ideally 3-5 main ideas, or main points.
iii. How does your topic meet the assignment? How do your main points help you achieve your purpose of telling the audience more about yourself?
iv. How will you connect your thesis and main points to your audience? How does your topic affect my audience?
v. What kind of support will you be using during your speech? Evidence, stories, examples?
vi. What pattern of main point organization (categorical, chronological, spatial, etc) are you going to use? Why did you choose that pattern?
vii. What is your attention-getter? What is your clincher?
viii. Are you using a visual aid? If so, can the whole audience see it? Do you need to pass it around?
ix. What are your fears for this speech?
x. What is your game plan to combat speech anxiety for this speech?