Building Your Speech

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Building Your Speech

• Yes, You Can!

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The Speech to InformYour First Speech

• Your first speech in this course is on a
  prescribed topic your dream career!
• Your demonstration speech topic is your choice.
• The demonstration speech is still an informative
  speech.

This is not you!
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How Do I Choose A Topic For My Speech?

• What do you already know about?
• What are you interested in?
• What do you have an opinion about?
• What have you been wanting to investigate?
• What would your friends want to hear?
• What have you or are you working on for another
  course?

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How Do I Know That My Topic Will Work?

• Is it appropriate?
• Is it overdone?
• Will it enrich the lives of my listeners?
• Do I CARE about the topic?
• Does the topic fit into the time limit?
• Can I develop responsible knowledge for this
  topic?

Your instructor is always here to help!!!!
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So How Do I Inform The People?

• Dont overload them with too much informationONE
  aspect of ONE topic!
• Organize, organize, organize. Did I forget to
  mention organize?
• Begin with familiarities.
• Be VIVID with your language.

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Step 1 Consider Your General Purpose

• Are you informing or persuading?
• When the general purpose is to inform, speakers
  act as teachers.
• Their goal is to communicate information clearly,
  accurately, and interestingly.
• They seek to enhance the knowledge and
  understanding of their listeners.

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Step 1 Consider Your General Purpose

• When the general purpose is to persuade, speakers
  act as advocates.
• Their goal is to change the attitudes or actions
  of their audience.
• They seek to get their listeners to believe
  something or to do something.

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Step 2 Develop Your Thesis Statement

• Your Thesis Statement
• Should be an infinitive phrase, not a fragment.
• Should be phrased as a statement only.
• Should avoid figurative language.
• Should not contain two or more unrelated ideas.
• Should not be too vague or general.

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Step 2 Develop Your Thesis Statement

• Does the thesis statement meet the assignment?
• Can this thesis statement be accomplished
  effectively in the time allotted?
• Is the thesis statement relevant to the audience?
• Is the thesis statement too technical or trivial?

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Whats Wrong With These Thesis Statements?

• To inform my audience how to make perfect popcorn
  every time.
• To inform my audience about the growth of credit
  card fraud and methods of sound financial
  planning.
• What is obsessive/compulsive disorder?
• To inform my audience why square grooves are
  superior to U-shaped grooves on golf clubs.
• Donate blood.

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Remember

• After you deliver your attention-grabbing
  introduction, your next statement always is
• Today, Im going to inform/tell/share

Ill be listening for the thesis statement in
every one of your speeches! Dont forget!
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Step 3 Your Mapping Statement

• Your mapping statement is an internal preview
  of your speecha brief summary of your main
  points.
• Your mapping statement must be a full sentence or
  sentences.
• The mapping statement refines and sharpens the
  thesis statement.

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Step 3 Your Mapping Statement

• Once youve secured your thesis statement, then
  think about three very specific main points which
  will support this topic. For instance  
• Thesis statement Today Im going to share
  information about the endangered spotted owl.
• Mapping Statement First, Im going to tell you
• about the owls heritage, then Ill share vital
• statistics about this creature. Finally, Ill
  tell you
• the endangerment status of this species.

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Design a mapping statement for the following
thesis statements

• Thesis statement Today Im going to inform you
  about how to register for college.
• Thesis statement Today, Im going to tell you
  about athletic programs at Darton college.
• Thesis statement Today, Im going to share
  information about steak houses in Albany.

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Consider this

• Once youve written your thesis statement
• Then your mapping statement,
• The body of your speech is basically outlined!

You as a speakerwith or without the muscles! ?
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Step 4 Build The Body of Your SpeechYour
Preparation Outline

• Your preparation outline must include the
  following labeled items
• An introduction.
• A thesis statement.
• A mapping statement.
• 3-4 main points, including subpoints, all written
  in full sentences.

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But wait theres more!

• References 2 written, 1 non-traditional.
• Transitions or signposts.
• A conclusion.
• A consistent pattern of symbolization i.e., Roman
  numerals, arabic numbers, letters.
• A bibliography.