Preparing a Public Speech

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Preparing a Public Speech

• Select your topic and purpose
• Analyze your audience
• Research your topic
• Formulate your major propositions
• Support your major propositions

• Organize your speech materials
• Word your speech
• Construct your introduction, conclusion, and
  transitions
• Rehearse your speech
• Deliver your speech

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The Topic

• Topics should be worthwhile
• Should be limited in scope
• General purpose to inform, persuade, entertain,
  serve a special occasion function

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Analyze Your Audience

• Who are they? What do they have in common? Age,
  gender, socio-economic status.
• What do they already know? What would they want
  to know more about?
• What opinions, attitudes, and beliefs do they
  have?

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Research Your Topic

• Formulate your major proposition your thesis
  statement.
• Formulate your major propositions.
• Support your major propositions
• Logic
• Motivational appeal
• Your personal reputation and credibility

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Organize Your Speech Materials

• Topical
• Chronological
• Spatial
• Cause and effect
• Problem solution
• Pro and con

6
Word Your Speech

• Dont speak down to your audience but make your
  ideas easy to understand
• Use personal and informal language when
  appropriate
• Use formal and impersonal language when
  appropriate
• Be careful not to offend members of your audience

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Construct Your Introduction, Conclusion, and
Transitions

• Introduction
• Construct your introduction last
• Use it to gain the attention of your audience
• Establish a connection between you the topic and
  the audience, i.e. establish credibility
• Tell your audience what youre going to say in
  the order youre going to say it.

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• Conclusion
• Signal the ending
• Review your main points
• Restate your thesis statement
• Close with impact

• Transitions
• Use transitional words, phrases, and sentences
• Connect your intro. to your major proposition
• Connect your major propositions

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• Rehearse
• From start to finish at least 4 times
• Time your speech
• Practice terms you have difficulty pronouncing

• Delivery
• Use you voice and bodily actions to reinforce
  your message
• Make eye contact with your audience
• Breath