Week 8 - Assignment 4.1 View the Assignment 4 Overview to gain an understanding of the overall assignment requirements (Assignment 4.1 and 4.2), available topics for this assignment, and grading crite

Sample Outline:

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*Please note that the purpose of this template is to assist you with correctly formatting an outline. This sample outline is not on an approved topic, and the thesis statement, main points, and supporting details should not be used in your outline. Please carefully review the Assignment Overview document (located in assignment link) for the approved topics. Also, your outline should not include complete paragraphs, entire speech, or an essay. *









Topic: Insert topic here.

  1. Introduction
    1. Capture your audience’s attention with a quote, anecdote, or personal experience
    2. Build up to the main reason for the speech
    3. Summarize the main idea and briefly state the main points
      1. Working with Microsoft Word
      2. Creating a Presentation
      3. Building on Previous Work
  2. First Main Point: Working with Microsoft Word
    1. Move an outline numbered item to the appropriate numbering level
    2. Help plan speech and organize thoughts
  3. Second Main Point: Creating a Presentation
    1. Creating a presentation from a Word outline
      1. Uses the heading styles
        1. Heading styles are applied when you use numbered outlines
          1. Each paragraph formatted with the Heading 1 style becomes a new slide, each Heading 2 becomes the first level of text, and so on.
    2. Procedures
      1. Open the document and use it to create a presentation
      2. Open the File menu
  4. Main Point 3: Building on previous work
    1. Use heading styles to create longer documents
    2. To learn more about Outline view, review Microsoft Word Help
  5. Conclusion
    1. Restate your main points
      1. Working with Microsoft Word
      2. Creating a Presentation
      3. Building on Previous Work
    2. Summarize the presented ideas
    3. Restate introduction or conclude with a compelling remark