Topic Selection and Management (MT-N) Flashcards
Simply a sustained formal presentation by a speaker to an audience
Public Speaking
Primary means by which to which to conduct business, debate public issues, make decisions, and gain and maintain power
Public Speaking
Refers to something that:
Interest you and you know something about
Can be adapted to address the needs, interests, and expectations of the audience
Are appropriate for the occasion
Topic
The topic can be adapted to address the audience’s what?
Needs, interest, and expectations
Refers to age range, sex, economic status, nationality educ background, academic designations in audience analysis and topic selection
Audience demography
Refers to values, beliefs, attitudes preferences in audience analysis
Psychology
Refers to time, venue, occasion, and size in audience analysis and topic selection
Situation
Three general speech purposes
To inform
To persuade
To entertain
Type of speech that provides the audience with clear understanding of the concept or idea presented by the speaker
Informative Speech
Type of speech that provides the audience with well-argued ideas that can influence their own beliefs and decisions
Persuasive Speech
Type of speech that provides the audience with amusement
Entertainment Speech
The objective of this step is to make the main idea about specific focused
Narrowing Down the Topic
This step is to collect ideas, information, sources, and references relevant to the topic by visiting Library, browsing the web, conduct an interview or survey
Data Gathering
What are the different Organizational patterns?
- Chronological order
- Narrative Order
- Biographical Order
- Logical reasons Order
In choosing a topic, what should you consider?
Demography, psychology, and situation of audience
Organizational pattern
Arranges main points in sequence or by steps in a process. When you explain how to do something, how to make something, how something works, or how something happened, you use this
Chronological order
Organizational pattern
Conveys ideas through a story or series of stories; rooted in narrative theory, which suggests that one important way people communicate is through storytelling
Narrative order
Organizational pattern
Structures the main points according to reasons for accepting the thesis as desirable or true; usually used when your goal is to persuade.
Logical reasons order
This is a written framework of the sequential and hierarchical relationships among ideas in the speech
Outline
What are the three levels of hierarchy?
Main point
Subpoint
Sub-subpoint
A well-organized speech has which parts?
Intro, Body, Conclusion
Generally, about 10 percent of the length of the entire speech
Introduction
The objective of this is to get the attention of the audience (shortest)
Introduction
You can start this by real-life experience, quotation, definition, question, current events, historical background, greetings, directly state the purpose
Introduction
This is where you state the thesis
Introduction
This is a one or two sentence summary that incorporates your general and specific goals and previews the main points of your speech.
Thesis statement
Refers to
* Providing explanation, examples, and details of the speech
* Main idea/Central Idea
* Longest part
Speech Body
This aims to leave the audience a memorable statement
Speech Conclusion
This should give a sense of satisfaction to the audience
Speech Conclusion
You should end the speech with what?
Finality
TRY to enumerate the speech writing process
- Conducting an audience analysis
- Determining the purpose of the speech
- Selecting a topic
- Narrowing down a topic
- Gathering data
- Selecting a speech pattern
- Preparing an outline
- Creating the introduction of the speech
- Preparing the speech body
- Preparing the conclusion
- Editing and/or Revising
- Rehearsing
