Presenting Your First Speech

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Presenting Your First Speech

• Chapter 3

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Presenting Your First Speech

• Audience-Centered Speechmaking model
• When designing delivering speech, make choices
  based on audience
• Consider Your Audience
• Topic, purpose major ideas should be based on
  understanding audience
• Needs, attitudes, beliefs, values behavior of
  audience play role in developing speech
• Video Clip
• Why do this matter? Why not just do what you
  want despite audience?

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Audience-Centered Speechmaking Process

• Select and Narrow Topic
• Pick a topic, narrow it to focus on specific
  aspect of it.
• Automobiles vs SUVs vs Chevy SUVs vs Chevy
  Tahoe
• Is Insects a good topic, Television, Mac
  Computers?
• Who is the audience
• Different topics appeal to different groups
• Preparing for college, Preparing to Transfer,
  Getting a Job
• What is the occasion
• Arrangement of audience, seated, standing, etc.
• Emotion of audience,

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Audience-Centered Speechmaking Process

• Determine Purpose
• General purposes for speeches
• Inform, Entertain, Persuade
• Specific purpose
• Detail for general purpose
• Indicates how you want to affect audience
• To persuade my audience to vote in the next
  election
• To inform my audience about Electric Vehicles

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Audience-Centered Speechmaking Process

• Develop Central Idea
• Identifies the essence of message
• One sentence summary of your speech
• Voting is our right responsibility is
  essential to American Society
• Generate Main Ideas
• 2-4 main points (usually 3)
• Questions to develop main ideas
• Does the central Idea have logical divisions
• Are there reasons why the central ideas is true
• Can you support central idea with series of steps

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Audience-Centered Speechmaking Process

• Questions to help with main ideas
• Does central Idea have logical divisions
• Yosemite national park offers excitement
  adventure to visitors
• Are there reasons why central ideas is true
• The death penalty should be banned
• Are there reasons to support his
• Can central idea be supported with steps
• Selecting your classes for the semester
• What steps would a student take in selecting
  their classes

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Audience-Centered Speechmaking Process

• Verbal Visual Supporting Material
• Facts Proven Information
• Examples Help clarify concepts
• Definitions Clarify meanings
• Quotations Statements by others
• Visual Aids Objects, Charts, posters, etc.
• Support material should
• Appeal to senses
• Be credible come from reputable sources

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Audience-Centered Speechmaking Process

• Organize Speech
• A clear logical structure helps audience
  remember
• Divide speech
• A well prepared speech has 3 major divisions
• Introduction Introduce topic
• Body Reveals info, details support
• Conclusion Wrap up lasting thought

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Audience-Centered Speechmaking Process

• Organizing Speech
• Outlines
• Help organize arrange content for speech
• Help practice delivery flow
• Consider Presentation Aids
• Can help keep your speech organized
• Can help audience understand ideas

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Audience-Centered Speechmaking Process

• Rehearse Your Speech
• How do you get to Carnegie Hall?
• A speech is a performance
• What is the best way to improve any kind of
  performance?
• Acting, Sports, Academic
• Rehearse your speech aloud
• Helps to practice like real presentation
• Helps with delivery elements
• Practice making eye contact
• Often difficult for new speakers
• Practicing will help to improve