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| The Six Steps in Speech Preparation |
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- Select and narrow your topic (choose a topic that is interesting to you)
- Determine your purpose and central idea (gerneral purpose - inform, persuade; specific purpose; central idea - like a thesis statement)
- Analyze your audience and occasion
- Gather your materials
- Make an outline
- Practice aloud
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- delivered with little or no immediate preparation
- sometime this type of speaking can't be avoided
- don't panic/keep cool
- The expectations are not perfection
- listen, take notes if you can so you can respond properly
- outline thoughts if there is time
- maintain strong eye contact
- people have made these speeches without even noticing it (telling your boss why you're late, explaining a process to someone)
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- carefully prepared and practiced in advance
- use a brief set of notes or outline
- practice the speech (but it won't be delivered the same twice)
- encourages conversational quality... and no matter how many times you have rehearsed it, it sounds spontaneous
- not tied to a manuscript
- you can have gestures and eye contact
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| What should be included in a good introduction? |
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- get attention, interest (relate topic to audience, state importance of topic, arouse curiosity)
- reveal topic
- establish credibility, goodwill
- preview body of speech
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| Perception of a speaker's qualifications |
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| Perception of whether speaker has best interests of audience in mind |
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Introduction
Preview Statement |
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| Statement in introduction that identifies main points to be discussed in body |
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| Preparing the Introduction |
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- be concise (10-20% of speech)
- look for introductory materials as you research
- be creative
- finalize wording after body is done
- work on content, delivery in detail
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- signals end of speech
- reinforces central idea
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| Building of zenith of power, intensity |
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| Generating emotional appeal by fading to dramatic final statement |
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Conclusion
Reinforce General Idea |
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- summarize speech
- end with quote
- make a dramatic statement
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- look for materials while researching
- conclude with a bang, not a whimper
- be brief (5-10% of speech)
- work out content, delivery in detail
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| Six Types of Supporting Materials |
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- Statistics
- Examples (stories, personal experiences)
- Testimony (quotations)
- Repetition/Restatement
- Analogies (literal - comparing 2 like things; or figurative - comparing 2 unlike things)
- Visual Aids (power points, overheads, charts, handouts, multi-media, pictures)
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- Emblems
- Regulators
- Illustrators
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| A type of gesture we use to communicate the same sentiment as the corresponding words. For example, someone may say to someone else "good job" while making a thumbs-up symbol. |
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When people use these, they are trying to elicit some sort of behavior from someone else. This includes nodding your head when you want someone to continue speaking or putting your finger over your mouth to tell someone to be quiet.
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Gestures used to enhance their verbal messages. An example of this is giving directions. When someone tells you to turn right, he may point his finger in that direction to show you the correct way to go.
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