That One Thing Flashcards
Audience centeredness
Keeping the audience foremast in mind at every step of speech preparation
Adapting to audience
Keep your audience in mind at every stage of speech preparation
AUDIENCE adaptation before SPEECH
Assess how AUDIENCE is going to respond to what you say in speech
Adjust what you say to make it as clear, appropriate and convincing as possible
AUDIENCE adaptation during
Adjust and go over if it’s not going through
Egocentricism
Tendency of people to be concerned above all w their own values, beliefs and well being
All elements of Preparation outline
State specific purpose of speech
Identify central idea
Label intro, body, and conclusion
Consistent pattern of symbolization and indentation
Benefits of preparation outline
Helps prepare speech, helps put it together and what you will say be organized
Benefit of using a PowerPoint
Integrates a variety of visual aids in the same talk
4 general heading info speeches fall under
Concept, objects, processes, events
5 ways to organize speech
Chronological Spatial Topical Causal Problem/Solution
Demographic audience analysis
Audience that focuses on demographic factors
3 types of questions to ask AUDIENCE about their opinions
Fixed alternative
Scale
Open ended
Fixed alternative questions
Offer fixed choose between two or more responses
Scale questions
Like fixed alt but allow more leeway in responding
Open ended questions
Maximum leeway in responding
Ethical speech making
Make sure your goals are ethically sound Be fully prepared for each speech Be honest in what you say Avoid name calling and other forms of abusive language Put ethical principles into practice
Four objectives of speech intros
Get attention and interest of your audience
Reveal topic of speech
Establish cred and goodwill
Preview body of speech
Two objectives of speech conclusion
Signal end of speech
Reinforce central idea
Diff between ethical and legal
Ethics deals w issues right and wrong in human affairs
Legal HAVE rules and laws and if violated there will be consequences
Diff between global and incremental plagiarism
Global- steals speech entirely from another source and calling it your own
Incremental-when speaker fails to credit the part in their speech that’s not theirs
What are two types of general purpose?
Inform or persuade
Diff between specific purpose and central idea
Specific purpose-single infinitive phrase that states precisely what a speaker hopes to accomplish in their speech (mainpoint of speech)
Central idea- 1 sentence statement that sums up or encapsulates the major ideas of a speech (details)
3 tips of writing main points
Keep main points separate
Try to use the same pattern of wording for main points
Balance the amount of time devoted to main points
