How to Train your Cat to Walk on a Leash Using Positive Reinforcement

Topic: How to train your cat
https://www(dot)nytimes(dot)com/2011/12/29/garden/training-a-cat-to-walk-on-a-leash.html
While some of the guidelines for selecting a topic were discussed in Chapters 2, 4, and 5, this section will more specifically focus on informative speech topics and problems that can arise when choosing them.
Pick a specific or focused topic
Perhaps one of the biggest and most common misconceptions students have about informative speech topics is that the topic needs to be broad in order to fill the time requirements for the speech. It is not uncommon for a student to propose an informative speech topic such as “To inform my audience about the history of music.” How is that topic even possible? When does the history of music even begin? The thinking here is that this speech will be easy to research and write since there is so much information available. But the opposite is actually true. A topic this broad makes doing research even harder.
Let’s consider the example of a student who proposes the topic “To inform my audience about the Civil War.” The Civil War was, conservatively speaking, four years long, resulted in over 750,000 casualties, and arguably changed the course of human history. So to think that it is possible to cover all of that in five to seven minutes is unrealistic. Also, a typical college library has hundreds of books dealing with the Civil War. How will you choose which ones are best suited to use for your speech?
The better approach in this case is to be as specific as possible. A revised specific purpose for this speech might be something like “To inform my audience about the Gettysburg Address.” This topic is much more compact (the Gettysburg Address is only a few minutes long), and doing research will now be exponentially easier—although you will still find hundreds of sources on it. Or, an even more specific topic would be like the one in the outline at the end of this chapter: “To inform my classmates of the specific places in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, that are considered haunted.”
Instead of looking through all the books in your campus library on the Civil War, searching through the library’s databases and catalog for material on the Gettysburg Address will yield a much more manageable number of books and articles. It may sound counterintuitive, but selecting a speech topic that is very specifically focused will make the research and writing phases of the informative speech much easier.
I. Introduction
a. Attention getter:
b.Credibility statement:
c.Why the audience should care:
d.Thesise.Preview
II.Main Point 1: What it is:
a.detail - credible source
b.detail - credible source
Transition Statement:
III. Main Point 2: How it works:
a. detail -credible source
b. detail- credible source
Transition Statement:
IV. Main Point 3: Pros and Cons:
a. detail - credible source
b. detail - credible source
V. Conclusion
a. Review
b.Thesis
c. Memorable ending