The Fundamentals
This difference between public speaking and casual conversations explains how both are organized.
Public speaking is carefully organized, whereas conversations are very loosely organized.
The function of this type of public speaking is to give information to listeners with the goal of having them pay attention and understand something new.
What is informative speaking?
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.
What is a formal outline?
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.
What are supporting materials?
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.
What is an analogy?
The perception of a speaker as confident, decisive and enthusiastic.
What is dynamism?
PREP is a handy formula to stay focused within main points when briefly preparing for THIS type of speech
What is impromptu?
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.
What is a Specific Purpose?
THIS type of supporting material grounds your speech in reality.
What are facts?
These are the motivations, attitudes, beliefs and values that affect how listeners receive a message.
What are audience dynamics?
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.
What is visualization?
As the second phase of THIS process, understanding empowers listeners by providing them with concrete information on the issue at hand.
What is the persuasive process?
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 supporting material comes from people who are qualified by training or experience to speak as authorities on a subject.
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?