Selecting Topic
Finding a good _____ for your speech is commonly one of the hardest parts of the speech writing process.
What is a topic?
Seeing how people react is why you should ______ ___ _______.
What is observing your audience?
This is the best way to begin looking for information for a speech.
What is using your own knowledge?
Quotable explanations and opinions over use of ____ in a speech can limit your creative process.
What are quotes?
This is the first step to effective speech preparation.
What is determining your content?
_____ _____ is the general idea of what your speech is going to be talking about.
What is the subject area?
These are the three main characteristics you should look for in your audience.
What is sympathetic, apathetic, and hostile?
________ adds a personal dimension to your speeches that can make them more informative as well as more interesting.
What is observation?
These are more detailed examples you can use for your speech.
What are illustrations?
Phrase a clear____ ____ and a clear____ ______. And, write the goal so it contains only____ idea(s).
What are speech goal, thesis statement, and one idea?
Your _____ _____ serves as a basis for your thesis statement.
What is a speech goal?
This is why you should gather information on your audience before a speech.
What is finding similarities and holding attention?
You want to interview these people for your speech.
What are relavant and knowledgable on topic people?
Anecdotes are brief amusing short stories. The reason for using these short stories in speeches is to ______.
What is to capture an audience's attention?
You should gather this about your audience.
What is knowledge, interests, and attitude?
Your _____ ______ outlines the specific idea or belief you are trying to convey to your audience.
What is a thesis statement?
Age, gender, income, race and location are all a part of this.
What is relevant information on your audience?
Books, periodicals, encyclopedias, statistical studies, biographical sources or newspapers are all ______.
What is material to gather information from?
This is the best way to give new meaning to a new idea.
What is using compare and contrast?
Do this to gather material for your speech.
What is exploring your own knowledge?
It is helpful to use _________ to generate a list of topics.
What is brainstorming?
Doing polls or tests, building experiences, or having conversations with members of the audience is done in order to ________.
What is gathering data on your audience?
If you want the audience to remember something you should use ____ to support your speech.
What is a visual aid?
This person was the best Jeopardy show host.
Who is Alex Trebek?