Editing Public Speaking (Summer 2019)/Impromptu Outline (section)

=== Your outline on the notecard may look like this ===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
| Thesis
I.
:A.
:B.
II.
:A.
:B.
|}


You end up filling in all the gaps when you deliver the speech. That is, you explain how main point I supports your thesis, and how IIA supports II. We can call these explanations “links” because they link the evidence to the claim or “warrants.” Someone who explains the links between the main points and the thesis and between the evidence and the main points makes it easy for an audience to understand his/her speech. Someone who doesn’t explain the links may leave their audience wondering, “what was that evidence doing in the second main point?” or worse, “what are you talking about?”

The model below is meant as a way of thinking about all the filling that helps transform your truncated (and visually oriented) outline into a clear speech for an audience of listeners. Each step is a chunk of talk. Watch one of the sample outstanding impromptu speeches on the website and you will notice that they follow this model for the most part.