Researching Your Speech Topic

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Summary: Evidence is important to any speech. Get tips for finding evidence for your public speaking occasion in this free video clip from a professional public speaker.

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Tracy Goodwin Tracy Goodwin has a master’s in corporate communication and 10 years experience in professional speaking. Recipient of numerous public speaking awards and is ... read more

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Researching Your Speech Topic

Okay, we've got our general purpose, which is to tell about buying a car. We've got our specific purpose. We want to talk about when you buy a car, three things that you should do, test drive, shop around, and do research. Fantastic. What do you do now? Well, the first thing you've got to do is research everything you can on these topics. So yeah, you're going to research. Okay, go the library, get on the internet, look at books, read the newspaper. Now for my particular topic, Consumer Reports would be a great research thing for me. Alright, you want to get every bit of information that you can that goes beyond your opinion. Now your opinion is great don't get me wrong, but when you give a speech you've got to have something a little but more than your opinion. I have an opinion about test driving. I have an opinion about shopping around. I have an opinion about researching, but I've got to have more than that. I've got to have some, maybe some statistics. Maybe a professional car dealer wants to talk to me about test driving cars okay. You've got to have some supporting information, so you want to find out everything you can about the things in your topic. Find it, write it down. Don't trust yourself to remember it. Trust me okay. Write it down; write the sources where you found it, because if you have to go back later and try to figure out where you found it, you'll never find it. Does that make sense? So find out everything you can about this topic, write it down. And now you're getting ready to organize.