Informative Speech

Fabiola Rodriguez
July 28, 2020

Informative Speech: Audience Assessment

Specific Goal: My audience will understand why managing one’s stress can help improve one’s health and output in life.

Stress can will take over control in once life if one does not know how to properly hand the stress.

My Narrowed Topic:
a. Strategy: I will teach my topic by explaining how having a better control stress can help improve one’s health and improve
one’s day to day life.
b. Narrow Focus: stress causes insomnia and mood swings which is bad for one’s health and could properly be handled.
Original topic: stress being bad for one
Narrower topic: stress increasing insomnia and mood swings
Even narrower topic: can be properly handled and dealt with

Ethos: -Primary Ethos: I know a lot of this topic just because since having a back brace I endured more stress over years.

-Secondary Ethos: I will cite different articles and blogs on how stress causes insomnia and affects the metabolism, along
with other factors.

Audience Knowledge Level: Most audience members know how important this topic is due to them having their own experience
with stress and how they deal with the stress themselves.

Adaptation to Audience Knowledge: I will help my audience understand my topic by asking and comparing the stress level they
endure and how they could better handle their stress

Pattern of Organization: I will use the cause – effect pattern of organization.

 Informative Speech: Outline

[Stress Handling]

Introduction:
with stress is never easy but knowing how to properly handles one stress can improve one’s health and day to day activities.

I. Hook: do you ever get overwhelm with life, too stress to get anything done in your day. Studies show not handling stress correctly
can affect one’s health and throughout day. My presentation today I would like to address different forms of stress, and how they
affect your health. Along I would like to show everyone different methods one could use to better help handle stress to live a better
healthy life.

II. Thesis: better handling stress can improve health and one’s day to day life, rather than feeling like procrastinating.

III. Ethos: I feel very much connected with this topic because ever since 2013 I got put into a back brace and that itself caused so
much stress on me, that I was having a hard time dealing with the stress that I now know how to deal with the stress better,

IV. Preview: [List here the two or three points you will cover in your speech. State your preview out loud in your introduction.]
1.i will cover the effect stress has on one’s health
2. I will cover the effect stress has on day to day life activity
3. I will cover how to better deal with stress

Transition: better understanding one has on how stress is bad for ones health and does affect ones daily life is an issue, but I will also
like to address how to better handle this stress to live a better healthier life.

Body
[Include at least one authoritative source, cited out loud, in each main point. Bold your sources.
In each main point, provide variety… at least three different types of supporting points. Use some of each: reference, example, mini-
story, testimony, fact, statistic, comparison, historical background, and the like.]

I. how stress effects one’s health

A. stress effecting sleep
i. stress causes sleep insomnia, making it harder for people to sleep properly, and having their following day
bothered by lack of sleep
b. https://www.sleepfoundation.org/articles/stress-and-insomnia
ii. lack of sleep causes mood swing and frustration throughout the day.
B. stress effecting metabolism
i. Can cause weight gain
ii. Can cause weight loss
C. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352154616300183#:~:text=The%20stress%20response
%20mobilizes%20the,and%20reduced%20body%20weight%20gain.

Transition: after presenting the facts why stress is not ideally well for the one’s health involving sleep and metabolism. I would like
to now address the factor stress has affecting one’s day to day life.

II. how stress affects one’s day to day life.

A. mood swing
i. stress can cause more mood swings, from having lack of sleep to feeling overwhelm
ii. stress can also cause mood swings with anger, feeling frustrated and overall stress
iii. https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/a-to-z/s/stress#:~:text=When%20you%20are%20stressed
%20you,contribute%20to%20symptoms%20of%20depression.
B. procrastination
i. having stress can cause procrastination, feeling overwhelm and too tired to actually complete the task –
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/science-and-sensibility/201510/stress-anxiety-and-
procrastination#:~:text=That%20can%20be%20stressful.,what%20you've%20left%20undone.
ii. having stress, one might not know how to properly start with dealing with a task when all they think about is
stress
Transition: know that we know most of the factors of stress and how stress affects our body and daily lifestyle, I would like to
address how to properly handle stress and find that relaxation in one’s life.

III. how to handle stress

A. how exercise can relieve one’s stress
i. doing physical activities relaxes the body more and reduces the stress feeling one carries –
https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/stress-management/in-depth/exercise-and-stress/art-
20044469#:~:text=Exercise%20increases%20your%20overall%20health,%2Dgood%20neurotransmitters%2C
%20called%20endorphins.
ii. physical exercises help the brain relax and detangle from all the stress one is thinking about
B. how getting off electronics can help reduce stress.
i. many cases electronics can be the cause of stress to some people
ii. detaching from one’s electronics and going out for fresh air helps reduce stress in the brain
C. https://www.adventisthealth.org/blog/2019/march/the-benefits-of-unplugging-from-electronics/

Transition to close: in conclusion it’s safe to say we all experience stress in different ways but do keep in mind we should always
know how to properly handle to stress to reduce ones stress and live a healthier life.

Conclusion:

I. Summarize main points/thesis: overall the main idea of my presentation is to cover why having stress can affect ones
health and affects ones daily life style, throughout it all I will like to address the proper way to handle stress and why its
important to handle stress.
II. Bookend: now seeing how stress can affects one’s health and daily life, should we all learn how to properly handle the
stress.
III. End the speech memorably: remember no stress is too hard to manage without proper exercise and stress relieving
methods.

References:

Exercise and stress: Get moving to manage stress. (2018, March 08). Retrieved July 30, 2020, from
https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/stress-management/in-depth/exercise-and-stress/art-20044469

Health, A. (2019, March 14). The benefits of unplugging from electronics. Retrieved July 30, 2020, from
https://www.adventisthealth.org/blog/2019/march/the-benefits-of-unplugging-from-electronics/

Knaus, B. (2015, October 31). On Stress, Anxiety, and Procrastination. Retrieved July 30, 2020, from
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/science-and-sensibility/201510/stress-anxiety-and-procrastination

Rabasa, C., & Dickson, S. (2016, February 07). Impact of stress on metabolism and energy balance. Retrieved July 30, 2020, from
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352154616300183

Stress & Insomnia: Help & Reasons. (2020, July 28). Retrieved July 30, 2020, from https://www.sleepfoundation.org/articles/stress-
and-insomnia

Stress. (2020, February 20). Retrieved July 30, 2020, from https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/a-to-z/s/stress