Griffin Selecting A Speech Topic and Purpose
Worksheet
• Make a list of the following three categories:
• Make a list of what you like to do:
Make coffee/Tea drinks
Lift Weights
Build Stuff with lumbar
Walks and speed running
Stalk the fire department
Cleaning/organizing
• Make a list of areas of expertise or knowledge:
Making very tasty coffee drinks
Human Anatomy, focused on the Cardiovascular System
To improvise how to build things with no plans (make stuff out of nothing)
• What would you like to know more about?
Biology and Human Anatomy
The study of Human Behavior
• Pick one of the topics from above that would fit a how
to/demonstration speech for brainstorming. For example, how to play guitar, how
to make margaritas, how to do the perfect winged eyeliner, etc.
• Brainstorming by free association: Put one minute on a
timer and write everything down that you can that relates to the topic:
How to topic: How to make the perfect Iced Coffee
