Narrowing a Speech Topic

Video Transcript

"Okay, we've brainstormed. We've got our twenty topics. We've written them all down, now it gets tricky. We're going to start taking them away. I don't really know that much about video games, I don't really like video games that much, so I'm going to get rid of it. Now we're assuming that I've got a list of twenty here. One by one, I'm going to take them away until I get it down to five. Five top choices. Now for me, I want to add in cars. Yeah I like cars okay. I'm going to narrow it down, narrow it down. Not that into music, not that into cats, not that into dogs, this right here. This is the ticket for me, number one choice. Okay, so I'm going to write a speech about cars. Yikes, that's a pretty big topic. We've got to narrow it down even further. What you want to do is you want to take your topic and narrow it down to the smallest finite thing you can talk about okay? So let me use another example. Let's say you want to talk about basketball. I'm going to talk about cars, but you want to give a speech about basketball. Again, huge topic. We've got to narrow this things down. Let's see what's first. A certain team. So we're going to take this, and we're going to turn it into team. Alright. Still too broad, we can't have a broad topic because you're going to get overwhelmed when you try to write it. Specific player okay, and then specific awards of that player. So what we've done is we've taken a really big topic, basketball, and we've brought it all the way down to the specific awards of a certain player of a certain team."