The Art And Practice Of Public Speaking Flashcards
Three purposes for public speaking. What are the key terms used to describe each purpose?
- To inform your audience-to teach an audience. Increase audience knowledge on a particular subject.
- To persuade-used to change believes, attitudes, opinions, and/or behaviors.
- Special occasion-used to entertain, celebrate, or commemorate.
What are three reasons to study public speaking?
- Employment-Being proficient in public speaking can be extraordinarily helpful in one’s professional career.
- Education-Studying public speaking can be beneficial to one’s general education.
- Citizenship-Studying public speaking helps one becoming better citizen so that he can better engage in civic discourse.
What are the three keys to good public speaking?
- Good preparation
- Good composition
- Good delivery
What are the different types of speeches?
- Manuscript speaking
- Memorized speaking
- Impromptu speaking
- Extemporaneous speaking
Manuscript speaking
Speaking occurs when the speaker reads the speech from a printed manuscript.
- This comes in handy when the words are vital or when the speaker is a prominent person who’s every word will be scrutinized
- Drawbacks-we do not write like we speak. If the speech is written down there is little room for the speaker to engage and respond to the audience. What would the speaker do if you lost to speech.
Memorized speaking
Where the speaker attempts to memorize the entire speech for delivery.
- -Is good Because the speaker is able to focus on the audience.
- -But what will you do if you forget?
Impromptu speaking
Where the speaker is required to speak without much if any preparation.
- A drawback is that you don’t have enough time to prepare as you would like to.
- Can help develop skills in oral presentation, can lead to a heartfelt speech
- Try to think about two or three points that you can cover prior to speaking.
Extemporaneous speaking
A speech that is well prepared, well practice, and well delivered with the aid of notes.
- The only drawback to this speech is that it requires you to put in a lot of time and effort.
- The benefit is that it will be well worth the effort if you deliver a good extemporaneous speech
What four concerns should be considered while analyzing your audience?
- Demographic composition
- Cultural background
- Attitudinal orientations
- Past experiences of the audience
What is BBs and BBs advice regarding audience analysis?
The audience should be central to every aspect of speech composition process. It Is vitally important that we place the audience foremost in our thinking. thinking when embarking on the composition of the public speech.
Be able to recognize the two points discussed in lecture regarding research.
Support all claims with evidence and use a variety of sources. cite your sources
Be able to recognize examples of different organizational patterns.
- Topical over categorical organization-organize the main points in terms of types or categories.
- Spatial organization-organizes main points according to how objects or topics are related to one another in space.
- Chronological organization-Organizes her or his main points according to how they are related in time.
- cause-effect organization- main points arranged by outlining causes and their effects or vice versa
What should the introduction and conclusion accomplish in a public speech?
Introduction-gain the audiences attention, relate to the audience, and preview of the speech.
Conclusion-Summarize main points and have a clincher that Texas back to the attention getter.
What was the major piece of advice concerning delivery in public speaking?
Things to do-make eye contact, have a pleasant and appropriate facial expression, try to be natural.
Things to avoid-avoid bombastic delivery, do not take extraneous objects, avoid monotone delivery.
More specifically, be able to identify the four concerns of delivery discussed the text.
- Eye contact
- Vocal enthusiasm
- Gestural enthusiasm
- Practice
