{"id":184,"date":"2020-07-16T15:14:24","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T15:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-publicspeaking\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=184"},"modified":"2020-11-24T15:32:49","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T15:32:49","slug":"introduction-to-choosing-a-topic","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-publicspeaking\/chapter\/introduction-to-choosing-a-topic\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to Choosing a Topic","rendered":"Introduction to Choosing a Topic"},"content":{"raw":"[caption id=\"attachment_3459\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"400\"]<img class=\"wp-image-3459\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5348\/2020\/07\/21043505\/choice-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Man standing in front of large vending machine\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/> Sometimes the more options you have, the harder it is to choose.[\/caption]\r\n\r\nIn public speaking classes, students generally choose their own speech topics. This freedom can be both exciting and overwhelming\u2014and leave you wondering where to start.\r\n\r\nThis section provides a series of questions and three methods to help you thoughtfully and decisively choose a topic that excites you and relates to your assignment and audience.","rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3459\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3459\" class=\"wp-image-3459\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5348\/2020\/07\/21043505\/choice-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Man standing in front of large vending machine\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-3459\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sometimes the more options you have, the harder it is to choose.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In public speaking classes, students generally choose their own speech topics. This freedom can be both exciting and overwhelming\u2014and leave you wondering where to start.<\/p>\n<p>This section provides a series of questions and three methods to help you thoughtfully and decisively choose a topic that excites you and relates to your assignment and audience.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-184\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Choice. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Victoriano Izquierdo. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/JG35CpZLfVs\">https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/JG35CpZLfVs<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/about\/cc0\">CC0: No Rights Reserved<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">Lumen Learning authored content<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Introduction to Choosing a Topic. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Susan Bagley-Koyle with Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":161083,"menu_order":2,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"lumen\",\"description\":\"Introduction to Choosing a Topic\",\"author\":\"Susan Bagley-Koyle with Lumen Learning\",\"organization\":\"\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"Choice\",\"author\":\"Victoriano Izquierdo\",\"organization\":\"\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/JG35CpZLfVs\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc0\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"318b58f3-b253-486f-9475-b8b1238be335","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-184","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":181,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-publicspeaking\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-publicspeaking\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-publicspeaking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-publicspeaking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161083"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-publicspeaking\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3460,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-publicspeaking\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/184\/revisions\/3460"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-publicspeaking\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/181"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-publicspeaking\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/184\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-publicspeaking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-publicspeaking\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-publicspeaking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-publicspeaking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}