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This lesson's about how to create main points for presentations.
It seems a lot of students struggle with this part of finalizing their outline
for their speech presentation so
I wanna give you a little bit of help on how to really nail this part of your
presentation
First, in an outline you typically start off with a thesis statement which is the
overall summarizing sense
of what your presentation is about. Then have three to five main points
and the reason why you have three to five main point is after the speech
you want to give your
audience 3 to 5 things or items that they can remember that they can walk away
from and
still retain and the memory. Then of course in your outline you have your
conclusion or how you wrap it up.
So let's look at some common main point mistakes
The biggest thing I get: let's am doing a speech about my favorite football team
the Miami Dolphins.
Typically . . . I see this a lot on students outlines . . . they will do:
one main point: history; second main point: coaches;
a third main point: players. That in itself does not give me enough about my
speech to
leave the audience with something to remember. Is it three main points?
Sure, but what is it about those three things that
I want the audience to remember? So, instead let me show you three main
points about history, coaches, and players
that are memorable; that the audience can take away. For example,
the Miami Dolphins are the only team to have perfection in their history.
That sounds a lot better than just having history as a main point.
The second one: that history of coaches for Miami includes the winningest coach
of all time. Again, that's a lot better than just having a main point of
coaches. And the last one: the most record-setting player from Miami was
Hall of Fame quarterback
Dan Marino. Again, that's a lot more memorable of a main point than
just saying players as a main point