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Charateristics of a good speech topic
- Importance to the Speaker
- Interest to the Audience
- Worthy of Listeners' Time
- Appropriateness of Scope
- Appropriatness for Oral Delivery
- Appropriatness to the Rhetorical Situation
- Clarity
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Personal Inventory
- What Public Issues do I care about?
- Which of my expierances might be generalized?
- Which of my interests overlap with those of the audience?
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Brainstorming
Mental exercise in which yo identify the things that come first to mind.
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Strategic Planning
- An Identification of the objectives to be sought in a speech and the means for achieving them
- Identify the purpose
- Identify the constraints
- Identify the provided oppertunities
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7 common speech purposes
- 1. Providing new information or perspective
- 2. Agenda setting
- 3. Creating positive or negative feeling
- 4. Strengthening commitment
- 5. Weaking commitment
- 6. Converstion
- 7. Inducing a specific action
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Constraints of a speech
- Audiences in general
- Your specific Audience Analysis
- Your ethos as a speaker
- The nature of your topic
- The rhetorical situation
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Opportunities for a Speech
- Information advatage
- Audience Analysis tells the composition and attitudes
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Specific Purpose Statement
- Focses on the outcome by specifying what you want to achieve.
- Focuses on the Audience
- Summarizes a single idea
- Precise and free of vague language
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Thesis
- A succint statement of the overall ideaor claim made by the speech.
- Defines what you want to put in to it.
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Basic Research goals
- 1. To develop or strengthen your own expertise on the topic
- 2. To find the evidence that will support your ideas
- 3. to make your ideas clear, understandable, and pertinent to your audience
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Examples
- Brief Example
- Hypothetical Situation
- Anecdote
- Case Study
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Document
Primary source that can directly establish the claim
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Supplementing the tools
- 1. Going to library because many are not online
- 2. Open stakcs allows for browsing
- 3. Digital Materials protected by a password
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Calculating the quality of internet acces
- Does the site meet the basic standards of credibility?
- Who set up the website?
- What are the sources credention?
- What is the purpose of the website?
- Does the content appear to reflect scholarship?
- Can you confirm it?
- When was the site lat updated?
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Why organization is important.
- Recall- audience is better able to remember
- Active Listening- engages listeners
- Personal Satifaction- make the listeners feel better
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Criteria for selecting a main idea
- Is this idea essential?
- Can Several ideas be combined?
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Charateristics of main ideas.
- Simplicity
- Discreteness
- Parallel Structure
- Balance
- Coherence
- Completeness
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Patterns for arrangement
- Chronological
- Spatial
- Categorical
- Cause-effect
- Problem-Solution
- Comparison and contrast
- Residues
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Chronological
organinzing by the passage of time
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Spatial
arranges according to place or position
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Residues
Arrangement by elimination
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Purposes for outlining
- Insure adequate coverage
- clarify and choose best organizational pattern
- check your organizational pattern
- become familiar with the claims you want to make
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Preparation Outline
- Complete sentences
- Subordination
- Coordination
- Discreteness
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Presentation Outline
- match structure
- key words
- intro, conclu, trans
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Benefits of VAs
- Make the speech more interesting
- Enhance the speakers credibility
- Improve comprehension and retention
- Advance an arguement
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Types of VAs
- Charts
- Graphs
- Representations
- Objects and Models
- People
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Choosing visual aids
- VAs make a complicated topic more simple
- Add interest
- words alone cant capture the idea
- stimulates memory
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Factors of decorm
- Formaility
- Length
- Intensity
- Supporting material
- Identification
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