Step 1: Select a Career That You Are Curious About

Step 2: Research Your Career Topic

Step 3: Organize Your Speech

Step 4: Write Your Speech

Step 5: Turn In Final Draft

Step 6: Create a Presentation To Highlight Your Points

Step 1: Select a Career That You Are Curious About

Step 2: Research Your Career Topic

Every student must complete the interview section of this research project, the remaining two categories are your choice. While you are not expected to address all of the suggested questions, you should discuss the majority.  Feel free to develop and answer questions of your own.

Educational Questions

Quality of Life Questions

Day to Day Questions

Career Growth Questions

Interview Questions

Writing a Formal Email

When you contact your professional partner, you will need to act as a scholar. When scholars exchange emails, they are formal and well organized.

Your email will have the following:

1. Professional Subject Line:  If the subject line is misleading or missing information, your email may not get read. Many spam filters detect and delete a blank subject email. Consider the following options:

   • Regarding My English Project: Career Questions

   • Thanks For Your Consideration: Career Questions

2. Salutation: Greet your professional partner with one of the following:

   • Greetings Mr/Mrs. their name here,

   • Good Morning/Evening Mr./Mrs their name here,

   • Dear Sir/Madam,

   • To Whom It May Concern,

3. Introduction: Establish connection to your professional partner with your opening line, don't leave them in doubt about how you came to be writing them

4. Body: Ask your questions and express how grateful you are for their help. Reread to make sure that you are using proper grammar and that your intent and questions are clear.

5. Closing: Choose one of the following closing statements and supply your first and last name.

   • Sincerely,

   • Warmest Regards,

   • Thank You For Your Help,

Create a Works Cited Page

Using citation engine, please create an exhaustive works cited page presenting each source you use in your speech. A personal interview should be referenced as a parenthetical citation.

For example: J. Smith, personal communication, May 17, 2008.

Step 3: Organize Your Speech

Once you've researched your topic, you need to choose a way to organize your information. This will help you develop strong thesis statement, topic sentences, and establish connections between those topic sentences and the evidence you've drawn from your research.

Write a Clear Thesis

A strong thesis should

1. Take a stand

   • Weak: There are some negative and positive aspects to the Banana Herb Tea Supplement.

   • Strong: Because Banana Herb Tea Supplement promotes rapid weight loss that results in the loss of muscle and lean body mass, it poses a potential danger to customers.

2. Express one clear idea

   • Weak: Companies need to exploit the marketing potential of the Internet, and Web pages can provide both advertising and customer support.

   • Strong: Because the Internet is filled with tremendous marketing potential, companies should exploit this potential by using Web pages that offer both advertising and customer support.

3. Be specific

   • Weak: World hunger has many causes and effects.

   • Strong: Hunger persists in Glandelinia because jobs are scarce and farming in the infertile soil is rarely profitable.

Create a Bubble Chart

Following a more informal, visual brainstorm can help you see how your ideas are connected. A bubble chart helps you establish connections between thesis, sub topics, and evidence in a visual way.

Begin with your thesis at the center, the next item in orbit is your subtopics, followed by your related evidence.

Create an Outline

Following MLA style formatting create an outline. This style of brain storming allows you to flesh out ideas and develop reasoning and flow in a well organized manner. Keep your statements as brief as possible, remember that this is a skeleton of the speech you're going to write.

Step 4: Write Your Speech

Now that you've researched your topic, it's time to begin writing the rough draft of your speech. Begin by opening the writing rubric and decide for yourself an area that you want to improve upon. Keep the rubric open as you work and refer to it to be sure that your are meeting the goals of the assignment.

Writing an Introduction:

• Hook or Attention Getter

• Transition to Thesis

• Thesis

• Warrant List

Writing a Body Paragraph:

• Transition Statement

• Sub-Topic Sentence

• Lead-in to Evidence

• Evidence

• Reasoning

Writing a Conclusion:

• Transition

• Restated Thesis

• Restated Sub-Topic

• Final Analysis

Class Discussions To Guide Your Work:

Reference Videos:

Step 5: Turn In Final Draft

The final draft of your speech should be submitted in formal MLA style, in the following order:

Informative paper Outline

Step 6: Create a Presentation To Highlight Your Points

To create an effective Slide presentation:

1. Keep your presentation simple

2. Highlight only the most important portions of your speech in your slides

3. Use readable fonts

4. Restrict your writing to no more than 40 words total

5. Avoid bullet points

6. Emphasis images, graphs and tables

7. Keep the text on the top