A point of view you share with another that says “we” have a problem, and we can find a solution.
PROBLEM ORIENTATION
100
This identifies the desired audience response at the conclusion of your speech.
SPECIFIC PURPOSE
100
This acts as a preview for the remainder of the speech.
INTRODUCTION
100
These attempt to show similarities between objects, ideas, and concepts.
COMPARISONS
100
This type of speaking involves speaking unexpectedly or off-the-cuff.
IMPROMPTU
200
An open-minded view of new ideas, trying new behaviors, and seeking new solutions.
PROVISIONALISM
200
These characteristics are observable or measurable. They include factors such as age, race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, and so on.
DEMOGRAPHIC
200
This pattern of organization organizes information in a time sequence and is typically used when the speaker is delivering a set of instructions, describing steps in a process, explaining a series of events that happened over time, or retracing history.
CHRONOLOGICAL
200
This form of verbal support defines, analyzes, or describes.
EXPLANATION
200
This style of speaking is the most versatile of all the styles. It requires you to be thoroughly prepared and well-rehearsed, but to deliver the speech in a conversational style with little reliance on notes.
EXTEMPORANEOUS
300
Refers to messages that explain your feelings, your reactions, and your needs to others.
DESCRIPTION
300
This type of informative presentation focuses primarily on inanimate objects that serve a particular function.
TOOLS / MECHANISMS
300
Words or phrases that create a bridge between ideas.
TRANSITIONS
300
Numerical facts that show relationships
STATISTICS
300
These deliveries are read word-for-word off the
printed page.
MANUSCRIPT
400
Stating what you think, feel, want, or need in a way that is direct, honest, and respectful of others.
ASSERTIVENESS
400
This type of informative presentation provides the audience with information about a particular event or occurrence.
INCIDENTS
400
This part of an outline contains your choice of main points, along with supporting material.
BODY
400
These provide a summary of information that would take pages of text to explain.
TABLES
400
These visual aids can look like a solar system, with main points orbiting around a central idea, or they may resemble an organizational chart with boxed information arranged in a linear pattern.
MAPS
500
An identification of the tangible consequences you are experiencing as a result of the behavior.
CONSEQUENCE STATEMENT
500
This appears in the introduction of the speech, setting the
stage for the audience and helping you to develop and organize the body of the presentation.
CENTRAL IDEA
500
These patterns organize ideas on the basis of physical
location or how something is put together.
SPATIAL
500
Quotes from experts in a given field constitute these.
TESTIMONIES
500
Some people with this condition will go to great lengths in order to avoid delivering a speech.