College of San Mateo Importance of a Proper Education Essay

I’m working on a communications writing question and need a sample draft to help me learn.

Our first main speaking assignment is based on your goals for your education, whatever they may be. Why did you decide to go to college? What do you hope to accomplish while you are here? What do you hope to do with your college education once you have completed it? By sharing your thoughts about these questions with us, we will all hopefully be able to reflect more on what we’re doing with our lives and why we’re doing it.

This speech is not a term paper/research speech and you do not need to do any additional research. It should be about what you know and personally feel and think about your educational goals. We should come away from this speech feeling like we know something personal about you.

To help add some structure to the speech, let me suggest using the chronological organizational pattern. A variation of this is the classic past, present, and future format, where you focus on aspects from the past first, then talk about the present, and then move to discussing the future.

REQUIREMENTS:

• The speech should be three to four minutes in length.
• Delivery is to be extemporaneous using 3-4 notecards.
• The introduction and conclusion should be fully developed and there should be a clear, logical transition connecting each of the main points together. Each main point should be clearly stated and well developed.
• Please submit an outline to this Canvas page prior to when you’ll be giving your speech. This should be 1-2 pages long and contain the content ideas. Here is a link to an expanded outline worksheet that you can use as a template: Outline sample