Introductions
The first major purpose of a speech introduction.
What is to gain the attention and interest of an audience?
A sentence incorporating the general purpose, specific audience, and prepositional phrase that summarizes your topic.
What is a specific purpose?
This is the first thing a good conclusion can do.
What is signal the end of a speech?
Scholarly investigation to discover, revise, or report facts, theories, or applications.
What is research?
A predisposition or preconception that prevents impartiality.
What is bias?
This is made up of competence, trustworthiness, and goodwill.
What is credibility (ethos)?
This can be to inform, persuade, or entertain.
What is the general purpose of a speech?
Final thought that provides a definitive sense of closure to a speech.
What is a concluding device?
This occurs when we survey a small group in hopes of representing a larger one.
What is generalizability?
A math subfield that gathers, analyzes, and makes inferences about collected data.
What is statistics?
This kind of "signposting" is done in the intro to a speech.
What is previewing the main ideas?
A speech pattern that involves creating chunks of information to help support your specific purpose.
What is a categorical/topical pattern?
This occurs when a speaker prompts the audience to engage in a specific behavior.
What is an appeal for action?
Research reported by someone not involved in conducting the actual research.
What is secondary research?
A speech that conveys knowledge.
What is an informative speech?
A brief (and often personal) account or story of an interesting or humorous event.
What is an anecdote?
A speech pattern that organizes information according to physical space.
What is a spatial speech pattern?
A concluding strategy that answers the audience's question, "What's in it for me?"
What is a reference to audience?
Information sources (both print and electronic) that provide short, very general information about a topic.
What are encyclopedias?
Type of terms that lend themselves to many interpretations.
What are abstract terms?
This is known as the "why should I care" part of the speech/introduction.
What are the reasons to listen?
A phrase that indicates that a speaker is moving from one main point to another.
What is a transition?
The process by which people remember the information at the beginning and end of a speech.
What is serial position effect?
Books and articles that are primarily written by and for other academics.
What are academic/scholarly sources?
Abstract ideas that exist exist independent of whether they are observed or practiced.
What are concepts?