Dog Training Rhetorical Purpose

Informative Speech Outline (Template)
COM380 Public Speaking
Student’s Name: Xinjie Li
Course #/Section: 90
Note: Complete all parts of the Informative Speech Outline. Review relevant readings and lectures on: Audience Analysis, Researching Your Speech, Supporting Materials for Your Speech, Organizing Your Speech, Outlining Your Speech, and Informative Speaking. Also, refer to the “Sample Informative Speech Outline” as an example of an outline that meets the requirements.
Planning for the Informative Speech with AnalysisSpeech Topic:Dog TrainingRhetorical Purpose:To inform my audience about how to train and eventually have a well-behaved dog.
Audience Analysis:
(Refer to chapter on Audience Analysis)Summarize Audience demographics, prior exposure/knowledge, common ground/interest, disposition/attitude, and situational characteristics. Incorporate results of Audience Analysis Survey about classmates from the Audience Analysis Activity/Discussion in Unit 3.
From the Audience Analysis Survey, a majority of my classmates would love to have a dog as a pet. Many of them believe dogs are cute and having a well-behaved dog adds to the cuteness. So, I believe this speech will attract their attention. Use of examples of well-behaved dogs as well as my experience of interacting with well-behaved dogs should add to the speech.
A significant number of classmates also have dogs as pets (as indicated in the Audience Analysis survey) and this speech will thus be personal to many of them. However, it is still crucial that the speech is entertaining and enhanced with rhetorical devices to help appeal to my audience further.
Informative Technique(s):
(refer to chapter on Informative Speaking) Definition, explanation, description, demonstration, and/or narrative? Please explain.
I explain why it is important to know the breed of a dog, the different types of dog training, and how to train a dog at home.
Organizational Pattern:
(refer to chapters on Organizing Your Speech & Informative Speaking)Spatial, chronological, causal, comparison, criteria-application, narrative, or topical? Please explain.
I use a topical organizational pattern.Message:
(refer to chapter on Informative Speaking)How do you plan to simplify and/or clarify your message? (e.g., general to specific, reduce quantity of information, draw analogies, reiterate message, repeat message)
I simplify and clarify my message by repeating my main message. Types of Supporting Materials:
(refer to chapter on Supporting Materials)What types of supporting materials do you plan to include? (e.g., examples, definitions, testimony, statistics, narratives, analogies)
The supporting materials I use in my speech include examples, narratives, testimonies, and statistics.
Types of Research Sources:
(review “Background Information” for the Speech Research Activity)What types of research sources (e.g., primary, secondary, and/or tertiary) do you plan to use to support the thesis statement and main points? Please explain. Note: 5 credible and relevant sources are required including at least 1 source must be scholarly.
I use primary sources from journal articles from ResearchGate as well as secondary sources from credible websites online. 
Informative Speech “Working Outline”
Introduction
Write in complete sentences. Refer to chapter on Outlining Your Speech.I.Attention Getter:When Osmar Persisco took his dog, Max, out for a normal exercise one day in Brazil, he did not know that he would nearly lose him. While in the field, Osmar and Max were approached by two men who demanded Osmar’s car keys. When he declined, one of the men shot Osmar, and Max immediately jumped into action. He attacked the two men but suffered three gun shots. Osmar took his best friend to hospital and luckily, Max’s life was saved.
II. Thesis Statement:Everything in life takes time and while training one’s dog might seem like a difficult task, in the end, a majority of dog owners end up happy and satisfied with the time and effort they invest.
III.Connection with Audience:There is no denying that dogs are man’s best friend, and therefore, it is crucial to understand how to make this relationship even better and fun.
IV.Speaker’s Credibility:I like dogs and have been involved in a dog training exercise before. I believe my dog, Ross, is well-trained and thus far, I have experienced and seen first-hand the benefit of training a dog.
V.Preview of Main Points:First, I will discuss the importance of knowing the breed of a dog before starting the training exercise. Secondly, I will discuss the different types of training, and lastly, I will discuss specifics of training a dog at home.


Informative Speech “Working Outline” (contd.)
Body
Write in complete sentences. Important: Include evidence in sub-points, as applicable (i.e., refer to source in each sub-point by paraphrasing, quoting, or summarizing with a citation following APA format – 6th edition), and insert transitions between main points. Refer to chapters on Researching Your Speech and Outlining Your Speech. I.Main Point One:Different dog breeds react and respond differently. So, it is crucial to know what breed a dog is before starting the training exercise.
Sub-point A: (w/source citation, if applicable)Knowing a dog breed can help you know the purpose or task a particular dog can and cannot do. Sub-point B: (w/source citation, if applicable)Different dog breeds are susceptible to different health issues. So, knowing the breed of a dog will help one know what diseases to be wary of (Waggener, 2017). Sub-point C: (w/source c...