The Fundamentals
The difference between public speaking and casual conversations is that public speaking is (more/less) organized than casual conversation.
What is more organized?
The function of this type of public speech is to give information to listeners with the goal of having them pay attention and understand something new.
What is informative speech?
This document contains the skeleton, or structure, of your speech and helps to turn your ideas into complete, coherent thoughts and sentences.
What is an outline?
This term points to similarities between things or concepts that are essentially dissimilar.
What is an analogy?
With regard to public speaking anxiety, this term refers to the body's automatic response to threatening or fear-inducing events.
What is the "fight or flight" response?
An off-the-cuff type of speech that occurs with little to no preparation.
What is impromptu?
Identifying this aspect of your speech narrows your topic and brings it into sharp focus. It states what you want your listeners to understand, believe, feel or do as a result.
What is a purpose?
This type of supporting material grounds your speech in reality. Not opinions, but...
What are facts?
This pattern of speech arrangement involves the geographic or physical layout of the topic (e.g. an overview a National Park).
What is spatial?
This refers to the practice of summoning feelings and actions consistent with successful speech performance and is a highly effective method of reducing speech anxiety.
What is visualization?
This refers to a type of speech intended to change an audience's perspective on an issue or motivate them to take a concrete action.
What is persuasive 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.
What is a thesis statement?
This type of testimony comes from people who are qualified by training or experience to speak as authorities on a subject. It includes findings, eyewitness accounts, and positions of professionals.
What is expert testimony?
This speech design is very focused and uses five steps: gaining attention, demonstrating need, satisfying that need, visualizing the results, and calling for action.
What is the motivated sequence?
This type of listening involves carefully evaluating a message for bias/fallacies, examining evidence to assess the credibility of sources, and analyzing rhetorical strategy.
What is critical listening?
This phenomenon/effect occurs when a speech creates the feeling that the speaker and listeners share goals, values, and common interests.
What is identification?
This research technique involves analyzing the audience's beliefs, backgrounds, motivations, and opinions to tailor your speech to them.
What is audience analysis?
This refers to a brief story of an interesting and/or humorous incident based on real life with a recognizable moral or lesson.
What is an anecdote?
This speech element helps your paragraphs link together and may help your audience focus on the meaning of what you have already discussed or prepare them for what is to come. It is like a signpost...
What is a transition?
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 we speak have power.
What are ethics?
This is the Greek term for a special occasion or ceremonial speech.
What is epideictic?
This is the Greek word for "character" and refers to a speaker's expertise, trustworthiness, and honesty.
What is ethos?
Use this type of supporting material to generate and sustain interest, aid in understanding, provide emphasis, and/or make your speech interesting. A typical instance of something...
What is an example?
These are the two types of points on an outline and refers to the logical placement of ideas relative to their importance to one another (i.e. equal or more/less important).
What is coordination and subordination?