Speech 1A

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Speech 1A

• Your introduction to College
• Public
• Speaking

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Speaking as Communication

• Ethics of Public Speaking
• Respect for Audience
• Responsible Information
• Accurate and objective reporting
• Concern for consequences
• Listeners Responsibilities

• Communication Process
• Speaker as a source
• Idea
• Message
• Medium
• Listener as Receiver
• Response
• The environment

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What makes a Good Speech

• Speaker Commitment
• Well-chosen Topic
• Sense of purpose
• Audience Involvement
• Substance
• Appropriate structure
• Skillful language use
• Effective presentation
• Ethical consequences

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Preparation

• Audience analysis
• Environment time, place, context, occasion, size
  of audience
• Demographics age, gender, education level, group
  affiliations, socio-cultural background
• Dynamics motivation, beliefs, and values
• Supporting Materials
• Facts/figures facts, statistics, evaluate the
  info, use effectively for support
• Testimony expert, prestige, lay, evaluate/use
• Examples different types
• Narratives

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Structure/Outline

• Structure use good form (simplicity/symmetry/orde
  r), organize body (arrange main points and
  support them), effective introduction (attention
  step, establish your credibility) say what you
  are going to say, Conclusion (summarize, sense of
  ending, or motivate) ask questions, use a quote,
  tell a story, end with a metaphor Transitions
  (link your information)
• Outline develop a draft, then the formal (title,
  topic, purpose, separate parts, insert
  transitions, word your main points, support them,
  add references), work the final outline. Tell me
  what you are going to say, say it with support
  and transitions, tell me what you have said,
  summarize.

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Types of Speeches

• Informational
• Purpose motivate, gain attention, and retention
• Types Description, Demonstration, and
  explanation
• Design spatial, categorical, compare and
  contrast, sequential, historical, causation, and
  combination of above
• Persuasive
• Purpose reception, orientation, acceptance,
  integration
• Reason get the audience to listen remove
  barriers to commitment and move the audience to
  action
• Types Addressing attitude, urging action,
  contention
• Design problem-solution analogy design
  motivated sequence, refutative
• Ceremonial tribute, acceptance, introduction,
  inspiration, after-dinner.

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Group Communications

• Problem-solving process
• Define the problem
• Find solution options
• Evaluate solution options
• Design a plan for action
• Plan for evaluating the action
• Small Group communications know your
  responsibilities as a leader, participant, and
  listener
• Leader vs. follower in a group
• Develop a meeting plan purpose of meeting
  agenda prepared follow agenda (keep it short)
  keep group small keep groups from same level
  find suitable meeting place and prepare for the
  meeting
• Conducting a meeting follow agenda allow open
  discussion urge all to participate stay on
  topic summarize what others have said close the
  meeting with a summary of accomplishments and
  when the next meeting will convene.

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RecapitulationSpeech 1A

• Speaking as communications
• What makes a good speech
• Preparation
• Structure/Outline
• Types of speeches
• Group communications