Speech Final

• Listen Actively-focus your attention to the speaker
• Listen for total meaning- listen for the nonverbal and verbal messages
• Listen w/ empathy-
• Listen w/an open mind-
• Listen ethically

A speech given without any explicit prior preparation

A speech designed to be read verbatim from a script

A meethod of oral presentation in which the entire speech is committed to memory and ten recited

A speech that is thoroughly prepared and organized in details and in which certain aspects of style are predetermined

A speech in which you explain an object, person, event, or process

A persuasive strategy in which the speaker first makes a large request that will be refused and then follows with the inteded and much smaller request

A persuasive strategy in whi8ch the speaker first asks for something small (to get a foot in the door) and then, once a pattern of agreement has been achieved, follows with the real and larger request

The overall aim of your speech, for exsample to inform or to persuade

Are counterproductive; they hinder the grouup's productivity and member satisfaction, largely because they focus on serving individual rather thatn gourp needs

Persuasive appeals that focus on facts and evidence rather on emotional or credibility

An organizational pattern for arrangeing the information in a discourse to motivate and audience to respond positively to the speaker's purpose

• Stress the positive
• Be specific
• Be Objective
• Be Constuctive
• Focus on Behavior
• Own your Criticism

The production of syllabes or words according to some accepted standard; as presented, for example, in a dictionary

• Improved public speaking abilities
• Increased personal and social abilities
• Enhanced academic and career skills

• Focus your complete attention on the speaker
• Sit up straight, look at the speaker
• Use your listening time wisely
• work at listening
• take notes if appropriate

• Reduce the newness of public speaking with experience
• Reduce your self-focus by visualizing public speaking as conversation
• Reduce your percieved differentness from the audience by stressing similarity

• Summery figures that help your communicate the important numerical information
• Use up to date figures
• Make #s clear
• Round #s

A system for analyzing a topic according to a pre-established set of categories

• Unfilled pauses- silences interjected into the normally fuent stream of speech (can be effective if use correctly)
• Filled pauses- in the stream of speech that you fill with er um ah well and you know (make you appear hesitant)