“To inform my audience about the three basic steps in preventive medicine” is an example of a __________.
A: specific purpose
B: thesis statement
C: central idea
D: general purpose
A: specific purpose
B: thesis statement
C: central idea
D: general purpose
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- "To inform my audience about the May Fourth Movement of 1919” is an example of a specific purpose statement for an informative speech about a(n) __________.
- As a specific purpose statement, “To inform my audience about computer technology” is too __________.
- A thesis statement refers to _____. A: a simple, declarative sentence that refines and sharpens the specific purpose B: an example that supports the idea a speaker intends to talk about C: something that illustrates, consolidates, and/or, expands the central idea D: a statement that lets the audience know the topic of the speech
- "To inform my audience about Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection” is a specific purpose statement for a speech about a(n) __________.
- “To inform my audience how to create their own Web pages” is a specific purpose statement for an informative speech about a process.