SPEECH WRITING Flashcards
What are the components of Speech writing process?
Audience Analysis
Purpose
Topic
Narrowing down a topic
Data Gathering
Writing Patterns
Outline
Body of Speech
Introduction
Conclusion
Editing/Revising
Rehearsing
This component entails looking into the profile of your target audience.This is done so you can tailor-fit your speech content and delivery to your audience.
Audience Analysis
The profile of an audience analysis composes of:
Demography
Situation
Psychology
It values beliefs, attitudes, preferences, cultural and racial ideologies and needs.
Pyschology
It is the time, venue, occasion, and size.
Situation
It is the age, range, male-female ratio, educational background and affiliations or degree program taken, nationality, economic status, academic or corporate designations
Demography
State again the three profile audience analysis
Demography
Situation
Psychology
The purpose of writing and delivering the speech can be classified intro three:
To inform
To entertain
To persuade
A speech that provides the audience with a clear understanding of the concept or ideas presented by the speaker.
Informative speech
A speech that provides the audience with amusement.
Entertainment speech
A speech that provides the audience with well-argued ideas that can influence their own beliefs and decisions.
Persuasive speech
State again the three classifications of writing and delivering the purpose of speech
To inform
To entertain
To persuade
It is your main point, which can be determined once you have decided on. your purpose.
Topic
Means making your main idea more specific and focused.
Narrowing down a topic
It is the stage where you collect ideas, information, sources, and references relevant or related to tour specific topic.
Data gathering
In general, they are structures that help organize ideas related to the topic.
Writing patterns
What are the 6 examples of “Writing patterns”?
Biographical
Categorical/Topical
Casual
Chronological
Comparison/Contrast
Problem/Solution
A writing pattern that either informs or entertains. It presents descriptions of your life or a famous person or not. Like informing people about the late President Ramon Magsaysay or describing the life and works of actress Marilyn Manroe.
Biographical
A writing pattern that informs or persuades. It presents comparison or contrast of two or three points. For example explaining why Philippines is better than Australia. Or debating whether makeup is good or not
Comparison/Contrast
A writing pattern that informs. It presents cause-effect relationships. For example informing students to stop smoking or vaping cause it damages their lungs, or the effects of drinking alcohol
Casual
A writing pattern that informs. That presents the idea in time order. Example, explaining the timeline of how cameras are built. Or the specific events in volcanic history.
Chronological
A writing pattern that informs and persuades. That presents an identified problem, its causes, and recommended solutions. For example, trying to persuade a patient going through sad events to take medicine and go to the doctor, or persuade the audience to support the educational governments of the national givernment
Problem-Solution
A writing pattern that informs, entertains, and persuades. It presents related categories supporting the topic. For example trying to persuade the community to promote reuse, reduce, recycle method to protect the environment.
Categorical/ Topical
State again the 6 writing patterns
Biographical
Categorical/Topical
Casual
Chronological
Comparison/Contrast
Problem-solution
It is a hierarchical lost that shows the relationship between your ideas
Outline
What are the three elements of an outline:
Introduction
Body
Conclusion
Give me two examples of suggested formats for an outline
Table Format
List Format
It provides explanations, examples,and details that can help deliver the speaker’s purpose and explain the main idea of a speech.
Body of a speech
What are the strategies to highlight the main idea of the body speech:
Present real life or practical examples
Show statistics
Present comparisons
Share ideas from the experts or practitioners
It is the foundation of a speech
Introduction
What are some strategies for an introduction:
Use a real life experience and connect that experience to your subject.
Use practical examples and explain their connection to your subject.
Start with a familiar or strong quote and then explain what it means
Use facts or statistics and highlight their importance to tour subject
Tell a personal story to illustrate your point
It restates the main idea of your speech. It provides a summary, emphasizes the message, and calls for action
Conclusion
What are some strategies in writing a good conclusion:
Begin the conclusion with a restatement of your message
Use positive examples, encouraging words, or memorable lines from songs or stories familiar with the audience
Ask a question or series of questions that can make your audience reflect or ponder.
__________ a written speech that involves correcting errors in mechanics, such as grammar, punctuation, capitalization, unity, coherence and others.
Editing/Revising
_______________, an award winning Canadian public speaker, lists six power principles for speech editing.
Andrew Dlugan (2013)
What are Andre Gludan (2013) six power principles for speech editing:
Edit for focus
Edit for clarity
Edit for concision
Edit for continuity
Edit for variety
Edit for impact and beauty
What type of editing/revising, Ensures that everything you have written from introduction to conclusion, is related to your central message.
”So what’s the point? Whats the message of the speech?”
Edit for focus
What type of editing/revising, Make all ideas in your speech clear by arranging them in a logical order
(Ex: Main idea first then supporting ideas/examples, or supporting ideas/examples first then main idea)
”I don’t understand the message because the examples or supporting details were confusing”
Edit for clarity
What type of editing/revising, Keeps the speech short, simple, and clear by eliminating unrelated stories and sentences and by using simple words.
”The speech was all over the place, the speaker kept on talking endlessly as if no one was listening to them”
Edit for concision
What type of editing/revising, Keeps the flow of your presentation smooth by adding transition words and phrases.
”The speech was too difficult to follow, I was lost in the middle”
Edit for continuity
What type of editing/revising, Adds spice to your speech by shifting tone and style from formal to conversational and vice versa, moving around the stage, or adding humor.
”I didn’t enjoy the speech because it was boring”
Edit for variety
What type of editing/revising, that Makes your speech memorable by using strategies like, surprise the audience, use vivid descriptive images, write well-crafted and memorable lines, and use figures of speech.
”Theres nothing really special about the speech”
Edit for Impact and beauty
It gives you an opportunity to identify what works and what does not work for you and for your target audience.
Rehearsing
True or false
“An outline determines whether your supporting ideas match your main idea or not”
True
True or False
“The process of writing is chronological or linear”
False- “Recursive”
True or False
“Any speech should include an introduction, body and conclusion.”
True
True or False
“The importance of a topic in the introduction can be explained by giving examples.”
True
True or False
“The purpose can be general and specific”
True
True or False
“Data Gathering means making your idea more specific and focused”
False- “Narrowing down a topic”
True or False
“The data that you get from data gathering will overall be very useless in making your speech, informative, entertaining or persuasive”
False-Useful
True or False
“Topics in general, are structures that help organize ideas related to the topic.”
False-“Writing patterns”
True or False
“Rehearsing is a major requirement”
True
True or False
“Categorical/Topical writing patterns presents descriptions of your life or of a famous person or not.”
False- “Biographical”
True or False
“The purpose of a Chronological writing pattern is to inform,entertain, persuade”
False- “Categorical/Topical or “To inform”
True or False
“Knowing the audience and occasion is crucial in writing a speech”
True
True or False
“Speech writing is a recursive process.*
True
True or False
“Word choice is one consideration in writing a speech.”
True
True or False
“Experts in public speaking, state that once your outline is ready, two-thirds of your speech writing is finished.”
True
True or False
“A good outline helps you see that all the ideas are in line with your main idea or message.”
True
True or False
“The elements of an outline includes audience analysis, purpose, topic and body of speech”
False- “Introduction, body, conclusion.”
True or False
“A significant consideration in developing the body of speech is the central or main focus idea. The body of speech should have two or three to more cental ideas”
False- “Only one central idea”
True or False
“The primary goal of a conclusion is to get the attention of the audience and to present the subject or main idea of a speech. The first few words should do so”
False- Introduction
True or False
“The primary goal of a conclusion is to leave the audience with a memorable statement”
True
True or False
“The approach used in the introduction can determine the success of one’s speech.”
True
True or False
“When it comes to guidelines in speech, we keep the words short and simple because your speech is meant to be heard not read.”
True
True or False
“The purpose of a speech helps identify ideas that support the main idea or message of a speech.”
True
True or False
“The primary objective of speech writing is getting the right or appropriate topic.”
True
True or False
“Use Jargons, acronyms or technical words so that the audience will understand.”
False
True or false
“Manage your time well, make sure the speech falls under the time limit.”
True
True or False
“Be insensitive to tour audience. Be careless of your language, jokes and nonverbal cues.”
False
True or False
“Use metaphors and other figures of speech to effectively convey your point.”
True
True or False
“Use active verbs and contractions because they add to the personal and conversational tone of your speech.”
True
True or False
“Make your speech more personal. Use the personal pronoun “I”. But take care not to overuse it. When you need to emphasize collectiveness with your audience, use the personal pronoun “we”.
True
True or False
“Constant practice makes perfect”
True
State the processes in speech writing
Conducting an audience analysis
Determining the purpose of a speech
Selecting a topic
Narrowing down a topic
Gathering data
Selecting a speech pattern
Preparing an outline
Creating the body of the speech
Preparing the introduction
Preparing the Conclusion
Editing or Revising
Rehearsing
