Introduction
An important element of speech preparation is the ability to establish your speech topic, thesis, main points, supporting points, and transitions. You can assess your ability to recognize these elements in the following preparation outline for an informative speech on Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD).
Instructions
Instructions: Drag the speech elements listed here into the organizational outline.
Keyboard Instructions: Tab to the desired speech element and use the Spacebar to activate the outline menu. Use the Up and Down cursor keys to select the outline position and then press Enter to move the speech element to that position in the outline.
Speech Elements
- I’ve presented the five signature symptoms of OCPD and will now examine the condition’s suspected causes.
- Adopting a miserly spending style toward both self and others.
- Perfectionism that interferes with task completion.
- There are five primary symptoms of OCPD.
- OCPD.
- Faulty parenting.
- Heredity.
- OCPD is a treatable mental illness that often goes unrecognized due to lack of information or confusion about the symptoms and causes.
- Harsh punishment/meager rewards.
- Preoccupation with details, rules, lists, order, organization, or schedules to the extent that the major point of the activity is lost.
- Medical professionals generally agree on four major causes for OPCD.
- Stubbornness and inflexibility about matters of morality, ethics, or values.
- Significant event/circumstance that triggers OCPD.
- Inability to discard worn-out objects even when they have no sentimental value.