Entering the Public Dialogue With Confidence: Your First Speech

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Entering thePublic DialogueWith
ConfidenceYour First Speech

• Chapter 2

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General Purposes

• To inform
• To persuade
• To invite
• To introduce
• To commemorate
• To accept

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Informative Speech

• Communicates knowledge and understanding about a
  process, an event, a person or place, an object,
  or a concept
• (Chapter 15)

Informative Speech by Chelsey Penoyer (partial
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Invitational Speech

• To explore and understand many sides to an issue
• When audience is polarized about an issue

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Invitational Speech

• To set stage for dialogue to clarify positions,
  explore issues and ideas or share beliefs
  values
• Rather than try to change other people, we speak
  invitationally to try to understand them
• (Chapter 16)

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Persuasive Speech

• Attempts to change or reinforce an audiences
  thoughts, feelings or actions (Chapter
  17)

Persuasive Speech by Jessica Fuller (partial 1
min. 14 sec.) Click image to play video alt
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Introductory Speech

• Present information about yourself, another
  person, or an event to an audience
• (Chapter 19)

See page 40 for the Self-Introduction speech by
Tiffany Brisco
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Commemorative Speech

• To praise, honor, recognize, or pay tribute to a
  person, an event, an idea or an institution
• (Chapter 19)

Tribute Speech by Tara Flanagan (partial 1 min.
8 sec.) Click image to play video alt
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Acceptance Speech

• To acknowledge your gratitude, appreciation, and
  pleasure at receiving an honor or a gift
• (Chapter 19)

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Canons of Rhetoric

• Invention
• Arrangement
• Style
• Memory
• Delivery

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Canon of Invention

• Consider the topic, or the subject
• (Chapter 4)
• Determine your purpose or reason for speaking
• (Chapter 4)
• Identify your audience
• (Chapter 5)

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Selecting a Speech Topic

• Based on your interests, hobbies, skills
• Brainstorming using free association, categories,
  or technology

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Canon of Arrangement

• Guidelines for ordering the ideas in a speech
• (Chapter 9)

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Canon of Style

• The guidelines for using language effectively
  appropriately
• (Chapters 3 12)

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Canon of Memory

• The time you take to rehearse your speech the
  ways you prompt yourself to remember the speech
  as you give it
• (Chapter 13)

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Canon of Delivery

• Guidelines for managing your voice, gestures,
  posture, facial expressions visual aids as you
  present your speech
• (Chapter 13)

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Trait Anxiety

• Apprehensive about communicating with others in
  any situation

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State or Situational Anxiety

• Public speaking anxiety (PSA)
• Some level of state anxiety about public speaking
• Nervousness is normal

Check out Interactive Activity 2.2 Connecting
with the Audience at the Invitation to Public
Speaking website.
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Reducing Nervousness

• Prepare
• Practice
• Be realistic
• Visualize success
• Affirm strengths
• Connect with audience