What About You? Assessing Your Outlining Skills

Chapter . What About You? Assessing Your Outlining Skills

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Assessing Your Outlining Skills

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: Place the numbers of the elements listed here into the following organizational outline.

Question

Topic:

Thesis:

I. (main point)

A. (subpoint)

B. (subpoint)

C. (subpoint)

D. (subpoint)

E. (subpoint)

(transition)

II. (main point)

A. (subpoint)

B. (subpoint)

C. (subpoint)

D. (subpoint)

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Assessing Your Outlining Skills

Topic:

5. OCPD.

Thesis:

8. OCPD is a treatable mental illness that often goes unrecognized due to lack of information or confusion about the symptoms and causes.

I. (main point)

4. There are five primary symptoms of OCPD.

A. (subpoint)

2. Adopting a miserly spending style toward both self and others.

B. (subpoint)

3. Perfectionism that interferes with task completion.

C. (subpoint)

10. Preoccupation with details, rules, lists, order, organization, or schedules to the extent that the major point of the activity is lost.

D. (subpoint)

13. Stubbornness and inflexibility about matters of morality, ethics, or values.

E. (subpoint)

15. Inability to discard worn-out objects even when they have no sentimental value.

(transition)

1. I’ve presented the five signature symptoms of OCPD and will now examine the condition’s suspected causes.

II. (main point)

12. Medical professionals generally agree on four major causes for OPCD.

A. (subpoint)

6. Faulty parenting.

B. (subpoint)

7. Heredity.

C. (subpoint)

9. Harsh punishment/meager rewards.

D. (subpoint)

14. Significant event/circumstance that triggers OCPD.