Pay close attention to the following when preparing your speech:

• Clear thesis: What is your perspective?
• Clear connection to international issue: How does this extend beyond the US?

• Introduction: attention-fetter, relevance to audience, thesis statement, preview.
• Conclusion: signal end of speech, summarize main points, decisive close.
• Supporting materials: include a minimum of five source citations throughout your speech. Support each main point with a variety of supporting material: examples, statistics, testimony, narratives, definitions. All five of your sources must be printed. For this type of speaking, books and newspapers are often the best sources to turn to.
• Quality of argument: Rational? Logical? Compelling?
• Typed, proofread formal outline.
• Required to use PowerPoint as visual aid (must email to instructor before speech)
• References Page: 5 sources, typed and following the 6^th edition of the APA Style Manual. Must all be PRINTED sources (you can access originally printed sources online through library databases, etc. in which case they will count as printed).
• Delivery: Your delivery will count more for this speech. You should have eliminated verbal fillers, have little to no fluency hiccups, make eye contact for 75% of the speech, have vocal variety (rate, pitch, volume), and appropriate gestures.
• Practice, practice, practice!!! (6-10 times)

CRITERIA FOR A GOOD FINAL SPEECH: