Types of Public Speaking
Speaking Strategies
Parts of (a) Speech
COMM 1101 Potpourri
100
A type of public speaking that aims to increase audience understanding about a topic through an objective lens
What is informative speaking?
100
Examples include: "First...", "In conclusion...", "Now I will discuss..."
What are connective statements?
100
An attention-grabbing statement, story, question, quote, or statistic that opens a speech
What is a hook?
100
The minimum time requirement for the informative and persuasive speaking presentation assignments
What is 6 minutes?
200
What is a speech of acceptance?
200
A rhetorical appeal concerned with crafting a speaker's credibility
What is ethos?
200
The name for an audience who is not present at the speaking occasion but whose interests and voices are still addressed in the speech
What is an implicit audience?
200
The citation style required for formatting the Works Cited at the end of your speech outlines
What is MLA?
300
An approach to informative speaking that provides the meaning of an idea, or that simplifies and clarifies the meaning of a concept or term
What is a definitional speech?
300
A rhetorical technique that uses words in non-literal ways, or figurative language, to offer new insight into a different word or concept
What is a trope?
300
A logically independent pattern for organizing a speech or paper that structures the parts of a speech by groups or types of information
What is a [topical/categorical] pattern of organization?
300
The third "C" of communication, after "Constitutive" and "Contextual"
What is "Cultural"?
400
A style of presentation that delivers a conversational and carefully rehearsed speech using brief or abbreviated speaking notes, not a manuscript
What is extemporaneous speaking?
400
A core element of storytelling concerned with drumming up particular emotions or reactions in the audience, or pathos
What is drama?
400
A step in the argumentation process that justifies connecting a particular claim to a piece or set of evidence
What is a warrant?
400
The title of our secondary textbook, also referred to by the acronym ADGA
What is "A Dam Good Argument"?
500
The process of discussing options for addressing community problems and concerns among a group of people
What is deliberation?
500
A false cause fallacy that assumes taking a first step will lead to a series of subsequent events that cannot be prevented
What is the slippery slope fallacy?
500
A framework for a persuasive speaking that follows this five step sequence: attention, need, satisfaction, visualization, and action
What is Monroe's Motivated Sequence?
500
A barrier to listening that emerges from restricting one's information-seeking and message interpretations to fit into their pre-existing beliefs about a subject
What is confirmation bias?