Comm Exam 2

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Identify and describe the stages in the model of public speaking:
1. understanding your assignment and identifying your purpose.
2. brainstorming a subject and selecting your topic.
3. developing your thesis.
4. conducting your research.
5. preparing outlines and visual aids.
6. practicing your speech.
7. presenting your speech.
Five public speaking purposes:
1. to mark special occasions: entertain, inspire, celebrate, speeches of tribute.
2. to inform: explain, define or describe something.
3. to persuade: seek to reinforce something or change beliefs/behaviors.
4. informative speech: instruct or assist the audience in understanding.
persuasive speech: stimulate an audience to reaffirm or ncourage the adoption of new behaviors or the continuation of past behvaiors.
Specific purpose:
I want my udience to+informative or persuasive descriptor+summary of topic.
Audience perspective:
Audience demographic.
audience psychological profiles.
types of audience: friendly, opposed, neutral, apathetic or unsupportive.
Personal perspective:
Your knowledge, attitudes, interests, experiences or beliefs.
Other perspectives:
The context and the situation.
Topic:
The specific focus of the speech.
when you narrow down the broader subject.
Thesis statement:
A single, declarative sentence that summarizes the essence of a speech.
the central idea of a speech that includes main points.
Questions you need to answer during an interview:
Who: relevant.
why: tell them the reason for the interview.
what: questions to ask.
where: location of the interview.
how: on time, dress, intro.
when: time frame
Personal observations:
Include observations you make about a group, person etc.
Criteria for evaluating materials: 5
1. avoid open resources.
2. consider the source: what is the purpose?
3. consider the author.
4. what is the date of the source?
5. has the info been manipulated?
Guidlines to becoming a competant and ethical public speaker:
1. the college classroom is a real audience.
2. the relevance of special occasion, informative, and persuasive speaking in your college experience.
Three types of speeches:
Special occasion, informative, persuasive.
Principles for effective organization: 6
1. clarity.
2. simplicity: straight-forward.
3. parallelism: begin each main point in a smaller fashion.
4. balance.
5. practicality.
6. order.
Three different types of outlines:
1. planning outline: first, rough collection of ideas.
2. working outline: preparation outline.
3. presentation outline: keyword or skeletal outline.