Sarah Peters
Com 115-610
September 30, 2008
Heart Disease and Cardiac Catheterization
Topic: Heart Disease and Cardiac Catheterization
General Purpose: To Inform.
Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about heart disease and cardiac catheterization.
Thesis Statement: I want my audience to understand many of the causes and
manifestations of heart disease, how cardiac catheterization is used as a diagnostic and
interventional tool, and the specifics of this procedure.
Introduction
I. (Attention Getter) Who here knows what the leading cause of death for men and
women in the U.S. is?
II. (Reveal Topic) That’s right, I’m talking about heart disease.
III. (Audience Adaptation) This is a subject that should be important to all of us
because, according to “Verbal Testimony of the AHA…” given by Robert O.
Bonow, president of the American Heart Association, found on the American
Heart Association’s website www.americanheart.org, last accessed on September
30, 2008, “Every 33 seconds another American dies from a cardiovascular
disease.”
IV. (Establish Credibility) As an employee on the cardiac unit at Poudre Valley
Hospital for the last two years, I have assisted in taking care of patients with all
