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UNIT IV: PUBLIC SPEAKING

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Chapter 11Developing Your Presentation

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Developing Your Speech

• An Overview of the Public-Speaking Process• Understanding Speaker Anxiety• Managing Speaker Anxiety• Selecting and Narrowing Your Topic• Identifying Your Purpose• Developing Your Central Idea• Generating Main Ideas• Gathering Supporting Material

Chapter 11: Developing Your Presentation


An Overview of Public Speaking

• The Public-Speaking Process– select and narrow topic– identify your purpose– develop central idea– generate main ideas– gather supporting material– organize presentation– rehearse presentation– deliver presentation


An Overview of Presentational Speaking

• Audience-centered presentational speakers are inherently sensitive to the diversity of their audiences.

AwareAdapt

VerbalListen

Non-verbal


Understanding Speaker Anxiety• Speaker anxiety results

from your brain signaling your body to help with a challenging task.– blood flow– breathing rate– adrenaline

• Most speakers feel more nervous than they look.


AwareAdapt

VerbalListen

Non-verbal

Managing Speaker Anxiety

• Know How To Prepare a Presentation

• Be Prepared

• Focus On Your Audience



AwareAdapt

VerbalListen

Non-verbal


• Focus On Your Message

Know How To Prepare a PresentationBe PreparedFocus On Your Audience


AwareAdapt

VerbalListen

Non-verbal


• Think Positively


Know How To Prepare a PresentationBe PreparedFocus On Your AudienceFocus On Your Message



• Know How To Prepare a Presentation

• Be Prepared

• Focus On Your Audience

• Focus On Your Message

• Think Positively


Use Deep-Breathing TechniquesTake Advantage of Opportunities to SpeakSee Available Professional Help


Selecting and Narrowing Your Topic

• Who is the audience?

• What is the occasion?

• What are my interests and experiences?

• Silent Brainstorming

• Scanning Web Directories and Web Pages

• Listening and Reading for Topic Ideas



Identifying Your Purpose• General Purpose

– inform, persuade, entertain

• Specific Purpose– concise statement of what your listeners should

know or be able to do• At the end of my presentation, the audience will be

able to explain the causes and most successful treatments for anorexia and bulimia.

• At the end of my presentation, the audience will try Zen meditation.



Developing Your Central Idea• The central idea specifies the topic of the

speech and makes some definitive statement about it.

• Criteria for Central Ideas:– audience-centered– single topic– complete declarative sentence– specific language



Generating Main Ideas

• Use the Central Idea To Generate Main Ideas:– Does the central idea have logical divisions?– Can you think of several reasons the central

idea is true?– Can you support the central idea with a series

of steps or chronological sequence?



Gathering Supporting Material

• Supporting Material Can Be Verbal and Visual– verbal

• illustrations, explanations, descriptions, definitions, statistics

– visual• objects, charts, graphs, posters, maps, models

– audio• music, CD-ROM, DVD


Sources of Supporting Material

• You and People You Know

• Internet– Criteria For Evaluating Internet Sources

• accountability

• accuracy

• objectivity

• date

• usability

• Library


Sources of Supporting Material

• Books

• Periodicals

• Newspapers

• Reference Resources

• Government Documents

• Special Services



Types of Supporting Material

• Illustrations– hypothetical illustration

• Descriptions and Explanations

• Definitions– classification– operational definition




• Illustrations

• Descriptions and Explanations

• Definitions


Analogiesliteral analogyfigurative analogy

Statisticsoral citation



• Illustrations• Descriptions and Explanations• Definitions• Analogies• Statistics


Opinionsexpert testimony, lay testimony, literary quotations



• Illustrations• Descriptions and Explanations• Definitions• Analogies• Statistics• Opinions


Acknowledgment of Supporting Material

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