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CS.
Chapter 10 - Public Speaking
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Introduction | 1. function is to create a desire in the audience to listen to the speech (create interest so it's not boring!) 2. increase audience confidence in the speaker (establish ethos) 3. let the audience know what the speech is about |
| Thesis | Placed in the introduction, it is the central purpose of the speech |
| Ways to begin speeches | referring to topic or occasion offering a personal allusion or greeting asking a rhetorical question make a startling statement use a quote tell a funny story offer an illustration |
| Conclusion | Ending of the speech; last chance to convince the audience of topic 1. signal the speech is ending 2. reiterate the significance of the topic 3. summarize the main ideas of the speech |
| Body | Part of speech between intro and conclusion. |
| Preview | (speech structure... "I'm going to give you 3 reasons why you should take action today..") |
| Transitions | Move the audience from one idea to the next. "Now let's look at the second reason..." |
| Internal Summaries | "So far, we've seen that there are financial and social reasons to act." |
| Stock Organizational Patterns | Arranges materials in ways that make sense to an audience. Patterns include:chronological, spatial, topical, causal, problem-solution, etc. |
| Chronological Order | Arranges ideas according to a logical TIME sequence. |
| Spatial Order | arranges ideas according to PHYSICAL location |
| Topical Order | divides the speech into familiar subtopics |
| Causal Order | Causes and effects of a problem |
| Problem-Solution Order | Offers a solution to a problem that has been explained. |
| Motivated Sequence | 5 part organizational plan: attention, need, satisfaction, visualization, and action. ANSVA |
| Attention Step | Occurs in the introduction. Focus listeners on the message and give them a good reason to listen. |
| Need Step | Speaker tells audience why they should listen. Goal is to get them to think. "This could happen to you if you don't take action..." |
| Satisfaction Step | Speaker offers a plan to meet the need. |
| Visualization Step | Describes concretely what will happen if the solution is adopted. |
| Action Step | Speaker asks audience to implement the proposal outlined in the satisfaction step. "So do this and stop in today..." |
| Outline | A blueprint that showcases the basic ideas in a speech. |
| Impromptu speaking | occurs when the speaker is suddently confronted with a rhetorical question and is able to organize a message on the spur of the moment. Clear organization is a must. |
| Extemporaneous Speaking | Carefully preplanned but nonmemorized delivery. Has researched and outlined the message but has not memorized its exact wording. |
| Manuscript speaking | Very careful compostion. Speaker reads from a printed page or other notes. |