Learning Public Speaking
Because you will probably need this skill at some point in your life.
Why do we learn public speaking?
These are the three steps in a speech outline.
What is the specific purpose, the main idea and the main points?
This creates an oversimplified image of a particular group of people, usually assuming that all members of the group are alike.
What is stereotyping?
This place has better sources of research for public speakers.
What is the library?
These are the three questions listeners ask of a speaker.
1. What do you mean?
2. Why should I believe you?
3. So what?
This is a speech student's greatest fear.
What is public speaking?
You need three to five of these in your speeches.
What are main points?
This identifies traits of the audience unique to the speaking situation at hand.
What is situational audience analysis?
This resource does not always have the same range and depth as a good library.
What is the Internet?
These provide numbers that clarify or strengthen a speaker’s points.
What are statistics?
Jerry Seinfeld said we would rather be this than give a eulogy.
What is being dead or be in the coffin.
These are the two kinds of speeches you are delivering in class.
What are informative and persuasive speeches?
These are the two messages delivered in every speech.
What is the the one sent by the speaker and the one received by the listener.
The best advice is to use the Internet to supplement, not replace this source.
What is library research?
These are the two types of testimony a public speaker may include in their speech.
What is expert testimony and peer testimony?
Nervousness before giving a speech is this.
What is normal?
These are the two ways you are delivering your speeches in class.
What are verbatim and extemporaneous?
This considers the size of audience, the physical setting and the disposition of the audience toward the topic, the speaker, and the occasion.
What is situational audience analysis?
You should use specific keywords or even type in a question into the search box when doing this.
What is using search engines to research your speech?
It is better for a public speaker to do this when a direct quote is obscure or cumbersome or when a quotation is longer than two or three sentences.
What is paraphrase?
This a "zesty, enthusiastic and lively feeling public speakers can have before giving a speech.
What is positive nervousness?
These re the three ways (or orders) you can organize your speech.
What is chronological order, spatial order and topical order?
In most cases, the larger this group is, the more formal your speech should be.
What is the audience?
Don't use this online document if you can't clarify this.
What is if you can’t verify the credentials of an author or identify a credible sponsoring organization for an Internet document?
The sources of your research you cite in your speech must be this.
What are credible and objective?