Read Chapters 15-16 of A Pocket Guide to Public Speaking – Fourth Edition by O’Hair, Rubenstein, & Stewart.
Purpose: To gain experience in writing introductions.
Instructions:
Write a creative introduction paragraph (a minimum of 5 sentences) for each of the following speech topics using the strategy specified in parentheses.
1. Something unusual or extraordinary that you have done (personal story)
2. Practicing safe sex (humor)
3. Extramarital affairs and cheating (startling facts or statistics; you may make up “data” for this activity)
4. Presenting an award (quotation)
5. How to make something (rhetorical question)
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- Something unusual or extraordinary that you have done (personal story)
Today, together with my spouse, we celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary. I know this may not mean anything to anyone of you; however for us both, it is a joy to reminisce. When we look back through our 30 years journey of marriage, those moments we flew together in achievements as well as mountains that we have climbed, the joy that we have shared in equal measure with sadness and sorrow……
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