Organizing and Outlining
Your Speech
Your Speech
A phrase or sentence that connects various parts of a speech and shows the relationship between them.
What is Connectives?
The resources beyond the speech itself that a speaker uses to enhance the message conveyed to the audience.
What is Presentation aids?
Having the quality or function of proving or demonstrating something; affording proof or evidence.
What is Probative?
The word-for-word iteration of a written message.
What is Manuscript Speaking?
New research, carried out to acquire data first-hand rather from previously published sources to answer specific questions or issues and discover knowledge.
What is Primary Research?
A type of connective that serves as a bridge between disconnected (but related) material in a speech.
What is Transitions?
Of or relating to the sense of smell.
What is Olfactory?
A story of something that could happen but has not happened.
What is Hypothetical narratives?
The subtle but meaningful variations in speech delivery, which can include the use of pitch, tone, volume, and pace.
What is Vocal Cues?
Information that is first-hand or straight from the source; information that is unfiltered by interpretation or editing.
What is Primary Sources?
A type of connective that emphasizes physical movement through the speech content and lets the audience know exactly where they are; commonly uses terms such as First, Second, Finally.
What is Signposts?
The attitude of a given artifact (humorous, serious, light-hearted, etc.).
What is Tone?
To set limits on what a word or term means, how the audience should think about it, and/or how you will use it.
What is Define?
A small raised surface, usually with a slanted top, where a speaker can place notes during a speech.
What is Lectern?
Information that is not directly from the first-hand source; information that has been compiled, filtered, edited, or interpreted in some way.
What is Secondary Sources?
A type of connective that emphasizes moving the audience psychologically to the next part of a speech.
What is Bridging Statements?
Drawings or sketches that outline and explain the parts of an object, process, or phenomenon that cannot be readily seen.
What is Diagrams?
A definition with clearly defined parameters for how the word or term is being used in the context of a speech.
What is Stipulated definition?
The rote recitation of a written message that the speaker has committed to memory.
What is Memorized Speaking?
Works that are published on a regular, ongoing basis, such as magazines, academic journals, and newspapers.
What is Periodicals?
The repetition of grammatical structures that correspond in sound, meter, and meaning.
What is Parallelism?
A graph designed to show proportional relationships within sets of data.
What is Pie Graph?
Issues related to the movement of the body or physical activity.
What is Kinesthetic?
The presentation of a carefully planned and rehearsed speech, spoken in a conversational manner using brief notes.
What is Extemporaneous speaking?
A review process in which other scholars have read a work of scholarly writing (usually articles, but sometimes books) and evaluated whether it meets the quality standards of a particular publication and/or discipline.
What is Peer-review?