Unit 2 Speech

What does KFC stand for?

• Know about

• Feel strongly about 

• Can do

What are the 3 general purposes for speaking?

• Inform 

• Persuade 

• Entertain

Examples of informative verbs

Educate, teach, explain, show, describe, share knowledge

Examples of Persuasive verbs

Convince, motivate, prove, choose,encourage, prompt influence

What is the “roadmap” to your speech?

Thesis

Why is it important to know your audience?

To make the topic more understandable/ demographic data.

Three tips to thinking about the occasion

• Analyzing the purpose

• Understanding the audience

• Preparing tailored content

Purpose

The goal you want to accomplish/want your audience to learn.

General Purpose

The broad goal of a presentation, usually categorized to inform, persuade, or entertain.

Specific Purpose

 A complete sentence that reveals the specific goal of your presentation.

Thesis Statement

The “roadmap” of the presentation. Listing the main points in a complete  sentence format.

Audience

 Everyone in the crowd/ background who listens to the presenter.

Demographic Data

 analyzing the statistical, observable, and measurable characteristics of an audience.

Occasion

a specific date or time a speech may be presented.

Expert Opinion

 a viewpoint of someone specialized in knowledge, experience, or training in that specific field.

Example

 a thing or characteristic of its kind illustrating a general rule.

Illustration

a visual representation that may get your audience to better understand a topic you are discussing.

Anecdotes

• a short amusing or interesting story about a real incident.

Comparison

• The similarities and differences between two or more things.

Literal Comparison

A comparison between two unlike things that actually have something important in common.

Contrast

Clarifies messages and guides the audience.

Description

Focuses on describing an object, event, person, or process. Vivid and detailed description.

Quotation

The exact repetition of words spoken or written by someone else, enclosed in quotation marks.

How do you organize the body of an informative speech?

• Chronological order

• Topical Order

• Spatial Order

• Climactic Order

• Cause and Effect order

• Compare and contrast

How to adapt your speech to your audience

• Experience 

• Familiarity 

• Technical knowledge

• Details 

• Essential steps

• Helping listeners retain information

Mnemonic devices

help the memory by providing easy to remember associations. (rhymes,acronyms)

Audiovisual materials

save the time in explanation, can clarify a point, and can help the audience remember information.

Demonstrations:

show the audience how to do something while explaining the process.

Delivering your speech

• Credibility 

• Enthusiasm 

• Eye contact

• Vocal variety and emphasis

• Clear articulation and enunciation 

• Good pronunciation

Informative Speech

provides information to the audience.

Expository Speech

gives information about a specific subject.

Process Speech

 explains how to do something, how to make something, or how something works.

Statistics

Provides a quantitative, objective, and persuasive platform on which to base an argument, prove a claim, or support an idea.

Chronolgoical

order by time

Topical

breaks it down into parts

spatial

based on position in space

climactic

from least to most important

cause and effect

shows conditions and their results

compare and contrast

shows similarities and differences

Attention getters

a statement or technique used at the very beginning of a speech to capture an audiences interest, curiosity, and focus

Topic picking tips

Finding something your entertained by

Narrow a broad topic

Go into more detail while searching

Things to enhance a presentation

Know your audience

Eye contact/posture

Have a good thesis