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Session 1 of Public Speaking (Informative speaking (Why informative…
Session 1 of Public Speaking
Benefits of public speaking:
Personal Satisfaction
Boost Self Esteem
Overcome Fears
Share your views with others
Critical Thinking
Improve Critical Thinking Skills
Analyze Communication Habits
Personal Development
Improve Communication Skills
Make New Social Connections.
Career Advancement
Impress your boss
Gain Publicity
Expand your professional Network
Personalize your professional Reputation
Informative speaking
Why informative speeches are important
They provide people with knowledge
They share our perceptions
They articulate alternatives
Enhance our ability to survive and evolve
recognize functions of informative speeches
Identify the main responsibility of the informative speaker
They are objective
They are Credible
They are knowledgeable
They keep the topic relevent
List and describe the four types of informative speeches
Definitional Speeches: attempt to set forth meaning of concepts, theories, philosophies, or issues that may be unfamiliar
Descriptive speeches: Providing a detailed, vivid, word picture of a person, animal, place, or object
Explanatory Speeches (briefing) focus on reports of current and historical events, customs, transformations, inventions, policies, outcomes and options
Demonstration speeches: shows listeners how some process is accomplished or how to perform it themselves
Discuss techniques to make informative speeches interesting, coherent, and memorable
Generate and maintain interest
attention getters.
Intensity: an extreme degree of emotion, color volume, etc
Novelty: something thats new or unusual
Contrast: attention via comparing two different things.
Humor: Making it funny.
Tell a Story
Be creative
Stimulate Audience Intellect
Create Coherence
Organize Logically
Use simple language
avoid info overload
Make your speech memorable
Build in Repetition
Appeal to different ways of learning
Visual Learners
Aural Learners
Read/write learners
Kinesthetic learners
Use Visuals
Persuasive speeches vs Informative speeches
Persuasive Speeches:
Fact, Value, Policy
Proposition of Fact: issues in which two or more sides have conflicting info.
Proposition of Value: go beyond the issues of truth and explore the worth of some idea, person or object
Proposition of Policy: go beyond fact or value and recommend a specific course of action
Informative speeches:
By content: Objects, Processes, events, concepts
By purpose: Descriptions, explanations, instructions
Topic should be noncontroversal
Try not to change the audience to beliefs or erge them to action
Needs to create the need for Information Hunger
Getting started with a topic
Four main components:
Speaker: who are you
What makes me unique, what am i interested in, what do I want to accomplish
Credibility
Character
Competence
Charisma
Initial Credibility
Derived Credibility
Terminal Credibility
Audience: who are they?
Audience Analysis
Demographics
Type of audience
why is the audience listening
What does the audience think of me/my topic/ my intentions
What do they value
Occasion: Where is this speech being given
topic: What info is being presented