Selecting the right speech
This quality ensures your speech topic fits the situation.
Appropriateness for the situation
What listener traits include age, gender, culture, and economic status?
Audience demographics
Sharing background details and notable traits about a guest speaker before they take the stage fulfills this specific goal.
What is speaking to introduce?
A diagram used to break down a complex topic into multiple parts.
What is a concept map?
Books, academic journals, government reports, and published news outlets fall into this category because they compile data collected by others.
Secondary Sources
Answering "Why am I speaking?" reveals this.
Your primary speech goal (to inform, persuade, entertain, or honor)
What factor accounts for audience size, time constraints, and distractions like hunger?
Context and environment
A fitness trainer presents research on sleep loss to convince clients to adopt an 8-hour nightly sleep schedule. Their primary objective is this.
What is to persuade?
To gather original, real-world proof without relying on secondhand reports or published articles, you perform this.
What is personal observation?
Passing off someone else's statistics, quotes, or ideas as your own without proper oral or written attribution.
Plagiarism
A wedding, memorial, or stockholders' meeting each demands matching this.
The tone of the event
What must you tailor your content to match so you do not talk down to people?
The audience's prior knowledge
A mechanic walks car owners through how an engine works step-by-step, focusing purely on teaching the material rather than selling a service. Their speech goal is this.
What is to inform?
Concept maps make complex topics easier to do three things: understand, communicate, and this.
What is remember?
Evaluating whether an author possesses the necessary background, degrees, or professional credentials to speak on a topic assesses this quality.
Credibility
Filtering broad topics by what fits you, your audience, and this factor.
The occasion
Ensuring a final topic fits personal interests, listener needs, and what else?
The specific demands of the occasion
During a ceremony, a speaker recounts a historical figure's sacrifices to evoke pride and gratitude rather than simply teaching history. This moves beyond basic information to serve what speech objective?
What is speaking to give honor?
Concept maps help simplify complex topics by taking a broad subject and doing this to it.
What is breaking it down into multiple parts?
Verifying that research data is free from commercial agenda, personal gain, or one-sided political spin tests for this key attribute.
Objectivity
Successfully narrowing your broad topic list leaves you with this final result.
A "short list" of excellent options
Analyzing listener demographics ensures your topic and examples have this quality.
Relevance
A speaker uses clever satire and exaggerated storytelling about office life to make the audience laugh after a long seminar. Even if the audience learns a lesson along the way, the speaker's primary intent is this.
What is speaking to entertain?
On the blood characteristics concept map shown in your slide, blood volume for men is listed as 5 to 6 liters, while volume for women is listed as this.
What is 4 to 5 liters?
When delivering a speech, stating the author's name, source publication, and publication date aloud is known as this required practice.
Oral Citation