Inserting the Title, Specific Purpose, and Thesis

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Some instructors may also ask you to write the title, specific purpose, and thesis of your speech at the top of your working outline to guide the development of your main and supporting points. If your professor has requested this information, indicate the title of your speech, and type or write it out in relatively large or bold type. Indicate your speech’s specific purpose and thesis at the left margin, as shown in the following example from a speech on animal translocation, a process in which humans relocate a threatened species to a new and, ideally, better habitat:

TRANSLOCATION AND ANIMAL INSTINCTS

SPECIFIC PURPOSE To inform my audience about the process of animal translocation and explain the challenges to its success
THESIS Animal translocation is sometimes a necessary but challenging process.