Managing Speech Anxiety and Organization

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Roots of Speech Anxiety

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Fear of Attention and Isolation, Fear of Evaluation and Criticism,

Fear of mistakes and failure, fear of an unfamiliar audience

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Myths about controlling speech anxiety

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Picture your audience naked in your underwear, drink an alcoholic beverage before you begin your speech, focus on a point above your audiences during your speech, practice in front of a mirror

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To Control Speech Anxiety

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Pracitce, practice, practice

Practice in front of other people

Give yourself plenty of time to get ready

Arrive early the day of your speech

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Speech Organization

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Step 1:

Select and narrow your topic

Make sure you understand the assignment

Pick a topic that fits the assignment

Make sure the topic is narrow & focused

Step 2:

Generate a purpose statement

At the end of my speech my audience should___

The purpose statement will become part of your outline

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Speech Organization

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Step 3:

Generate a thesis statement

NOT like an english comp thesis statement(3 pronged)

Speech thesis statementt should be one declarative sentence & thematic

If my only opportunity to speak to my audience qwas to state my thesis, what would I say

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Speech Organization

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Researching your speech

Gather source material from reputable

Books, magazines, newspapers, internet(electronic resources) (Not Wikipedia)

Professional journals, personal interviews, public reviews

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Speech Organization

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Step 5:

Organizw main divisions of your speech

Never say good morning, how are you, nor hi my name is...

Introduction

First, appropiately and effectively get your audience's attention through a(n)

Familiar quotation

Surprising fact/statistic

Personal narrative

Incorporation of a visual aid

Questions or a series of questions related to your topic

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Proposal

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Name

5-6 sentences about what motivated to make speech 1

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Rehearse Your Speech

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Always practice with a timer

Practice in front of other people

If you have high speech anxiety , try to practice at least once in the room in which you will speak

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Use of Visual Aids In a Speech

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Save as USB (flash drive) should say .ppt or .pptx

Send to own gmail as backup

Don't implement works cited slide in powerpoint