Briefing on Taiwan: Project Instructions

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Briefing on Taiwan Project Instructions

• By Doris L. W. Chang
• 2002/12/26

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Steps

• Audience Analyses
• Occasion Analyses
• Research Bibliography Compilation
• Speech Proposal
• Delivery Design
• Create Visual/Audio Aids
• Practice Wording
• Practice Delivery

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Audience Analyses

• What do your audience know?
• What do you know that they dont
• Audience preference your interest
• Narrow down on a workable topic
• Evaluate Possible Audience response

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Occasion Analyses

• In-class Presentation
• Many other speakers talking about similar topics
• Equipment in the room (Get the notebook
  projector set on the desk before class)
• Copy Paste PP file on the notebook

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Research Bibliography

• Where to go find English materials
• Authentic substantial materials
• Accurate idiomatic expressions
• MLA Format bibliography

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Speech Proposal

• State Speech Purpose
• General/Specific
• Thesis statement
• Detail Speech Outline and Planner
• Examples
• Informative Speech Outline (Payne 106-9)
• See workbook Page 22
• References

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Delivery Design 1

• Speech Drafts
• Write a thesis to state the specifics of the
  speech goal
• Outline main points according to audience needs
• Create section transitions to serve as guideposts

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Delivery Design 2

• Create an intro. That
• Gets attention
• Sets the tone
• Creates goodwill
• Builds your credibility
• Previews the body of your briefing

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Delivery Design 3

• Create a conclusion that
• Summarizes the material
• Leaves the speech on a high note
• Review and complete the speech outline
• Prepare speaker notes from the outline

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Create Visual Aids 1

• Purposeto clarify, emphasize, and dramatize
  verbal information
• Measure the time needed to set up the aids
• Calculate when and how to use them
• E.g. introduction slides to get attention
• Conclusion slides for review
• Background music to set the atmosphere

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Visual Aids 2specifics

• Prepare a PP presentation for your audience to
  preview
• Organize pictures, posters, graphs, maps, or aids
  that help the audience visualize your messages
• Background music
• To be played in the beginning or end of your
  speech, dont play it throughout

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Practice Wording

• Prepare a list of key words, check their
  pronunciation
• Practice the speech
• Talk from the outline notes
• Talk about the speech, not memorize, until the
  wording is enthusiastic, emphatic, and appropriate

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Practice Delivery

• Practice until the delivery
• meets the time requirement
• Sounds enthusiastic
• Sounds vocally expressive, fluent, spontaneous,
  and direct
• Count the time needed for aids
• Get a classmate to operate the notebook for you
  if necessary

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Outline the Main Points

• Outline the main points as complete sentences
  that are

Clear
Parallel
Meaningful
Make the Outline flexible

• Show parts that can be cut
• Adjust to audience interests response
• Can lead to conclusion as the bell rings

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• In conclusion
• Follow the steps
• Sign up on presentation schedule

Have fun!