Types of Public Speaking
Speaking with crispness or clarity so that listeners can distinguish separate words as well as separate syllables and vowels or consonant sounds within words.
Articulation
This type of outline is the final step in planning the structure of your speech and works to flush out your ideas into complete, coherent thoughts and sentences.
Formal Outline
This type of supporting material comes from people who are qualified by training or experience to speak as authorities on a subject.
Expert Testimony
This technique for the structure of supporting materials combines the principals of comparison and contrast to point similarities between things or concepts that are essentially dissimilar.
An Analogy
This public speaking anxiety management technique helps you control your anxieties when you systematically imagine yourself succeeding as a speaker and then practice your presentation with that image in mind.
Visualization
Seek to share information, explanations, or even ideas with an audience.
Informative Speech
This speech element, included in the introduction, is the central idea of the message of a speech and summarizes what you intend to say.
Thesis Statement
This type of supporting material illustrates an idea in your speech by involving listeners in creating meaning, so that the message becomes their discovery.
A Narrative
A technique used in informative speeches that explains the essence, meaning, purpose, or identity of something.
Definition
The section of a speech that falls between the introduction and the conclusion and contains the main part of the speech.
Body
Goal is to affect your audience members' beliefs, attitudes, or actions, while also advocating fact, value, or policy claims.
Persuasive Speech
Listing every idea that comes to mind without evaluating its merits.
Brainstorming
Use this type of supporting material to arouse and sustain interest, aid in understanding, provide emphasis, and/or make your speech interesting.
An Example
This speech element shows your listeners how your ideas connect with one another and may help your audience focus on the meaning of what you have already discussed or prepare them for what is to come.
Transition
Details about a researched source, including author, title, publication date, and page numbers or URL.
Bibliographic Information
Anything beyond your spoken words that you employ to help your audience members understand and remember your message.
Presentation Aid
This type of purpose narrows your topic and brings it into sharp focus. It states precisely what you want your listeners to understand, believe, feel or do.
Specific Purpose
This type of supporting material grounds your speech in reality.
Facts
A technique used in informative speeches that explains that provides an analysis of something for the purpose of clarity and specificity by tracing a line of reasoning for a series of casual connections between events.
Explanation
This moral dimension of human conduct involves the way we treat others and want to be treated and is very important to consider when preparing a speech because the words that come out of our mouths have consequences.
Ethics
Messages transmitted through either a mechanical or electronic medium.
Mediated Communication
Writing down a word or phrase in the middle of a large piece of blank paper, and then surround it with words and images representing other ideas that come to you.
Mind Mapping
These are the building blocks of a speech. They help illustrate the meaning of topics, show the relevance of ideas, make your words memorable and verify controversial statements or claims.
Supporting Materials
A technique used in informative speeches that uses words to paint a mental picture for the audience members so that they can close their eyes and imagine what the speaker is saying.
Description
Techniques that reduce muscle tension and negative thoughts.
Relaxation Strategies