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Essay: Advantages of using visual aids

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  • Enhance a speaker’s credibility
  • Improve a speaker’s persuasiveness
  • Help a speaker combat stage fright
  • Increase the interest of a speaker’s information
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Essay: Difference between passive and active agreement in a persuasive speech

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Difference is to gain immediate action you want the audience to be convinced to do something with but with the passive agreement they simply have to agree with but not necessarily be encouraged to do anything about it

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Essay: Why persuasive speaking is usually more difficult than informative speaking

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  • inform:The aim of an informative speech is to communicate information clearly and accurately.
  • persuade:Change some opinion, attitude, or behavior of an audience.
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Types of visual aids

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  • Objects and models
  • Photographs and drawings
  • Graphs: line, pie, and bar
  • Charts
  • Video
  • Powerpoint
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Types of visual aids

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  • Objects and models
  • Photographs and drawings
  • Graphs
  • Charts
  • Video
  • Powerpoint
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What is the primary purpose of audience centeredness

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To gain response

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The tendency of people to be concerned above all with their own values, beliefs, and well-being

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Egocentrism

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Paying close attention to message that affect them directly

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Egocentrism

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Analysis that focuses on factors such as age, gender, religion, sexual orientation, group membership and racial, ethnic, or cultural background

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Demographic Audience Analysis

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Demographic Audience Analysis should always avoid what

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Sterotyping

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What two analysis need to be combined

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Situational and Demographic Audience Analysis

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Analysis is that focus on factors such as size of audience, the physical setting for the speech, in the disposition of the audience towards the topic, speaker, and the occasion

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Situational Audience Analysis

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What are the three types of graphs?

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Line, pie, and bar

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Which graph is best for illustrating statistical trend

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Line

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Which graph is well suited for demonstrating distribution patterns?

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Pie

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Which graph is effective for showing comparisons between two or more items

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Bar

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Which graph is effective for showing comparisons between two or more items

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Bar

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Tips for using powerpoint

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  • Prepare in advance
  • Keep it simple
  • Large enough
  • Limit amount of text
  • Fonts effectively
  • Color effectively
  • Use images strategically
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Know why persuasive speaking is more difficult than other types of speaking

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its hard to change people’s beliefs

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Reasons why persuasive speaking is more difficult than other types

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  • Often deal with controversial topics

- They involve attitudes, values, and beliefs

21
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The mental five and take between speaker and listener during a persuasive speech

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Mental Dialogue

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Speeches commited by memory/ delivered word by word

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Mental Dialogue

23
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The portion of audience the speaker most wants to persuade

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Tagery audience

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Three issues to address when dealing with a question of policy: need, plan, praticality

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  1. Need for the change.
  2. Offer a specific plan—policy—that will solve the need.
  3. Show their plan is workable and will solve the need without creating new problems.
25
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Monroe’s Motivated Sequence

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  1. To gain the attention of the audience.
  2. To show the need for a change.
  3. To satisfy the sense of need by presenting a plan that will remedy the need.
  4. To visualize the benefits and practicality of the plan.
  5. To urge the audience to take action in support of the plan.
26
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Organizational patterns for persuasive speeches

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  • Problem solution order
  • Problem cause solution order
  • Comparative advantages
27
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Refers to how an audience regards a speaker’s sincerity, trustworthiness, and concern for the well being of the audience

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Competence

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Refers to how an audience regards a speaker’s sincerity, trustworthiness, and well being of the audience

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Character

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Credibility is the audience’s perception of the speaker before the speech begins.

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Initial

30
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Credibility is produced by everything a speaker says and does during the speech.

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Derived

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Credibility is the audience’s perception of the speaker at the end of the speech

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Terminal

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Assumes that because something is popular, it is therefore good, correct, or desirable.

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Bandwagon Fallacy

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Introduces an irrelevant issue in order to divert attention from the subject under discussion.

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Red Herring Fallacy

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  1. Ethos
  2. Logos
  3. Pathos
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  1. Credibility
  2. Logical Appeal
  3. Emotional Appeal
35
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Meaning is precise, literal, and objective

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Denotative

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Meaning is more variable, figurative, and subjective

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Connotative

37
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Using language clearly

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  • immediately comprehensible
  • use familiar words
  • use concrete words
  • eliminate linguistic clutter
38
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Using language vividly

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  • Use imagery

- Use rhythm

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Using language accurately

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  • vital when using numbers

- Improving vocabulary

40
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Repeating the initial consonant sound in close or adjoining words.

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Alliteration

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Juxtaposing contrasting ideas, usually in parallel structure.

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Antithesis

42
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Repetition of initial consonant sounds

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Alliteration

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A balancing of two opposite or contrasting words, phrases, or clauses.

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Antithesis

44
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Identify types of special occasions for speeches

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  • weddings
  • funerals
  • dedications
45
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What is the purpose of occasional speeches

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To make it special and memorable/ fulfill special needs of the occasion

46
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Speeches of presentation

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  • brief
  • why received
  • discuss achievements
  • praising other competitors
47
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Speeches of acceptance

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  • thank people giving it

- acknowledge people who helped

48
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Commemorative speeches

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  • pay tribute
  • inspire audience
  • use creative and subtle language

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