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Selecting a Topic

Selecting a Topic

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Vicki Allen

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Selecting a Topic

You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart!

~John Ford​

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  • Searching 

  • Selecting 

  • Evaluating 

  • Purposes of Speeches

  • Topic Selection to Thesis Statement: A Three-Step Process

Selecting a Topic and Purpose

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  • begins with catagoies that prompt you to think of topics.

Catagorial brainstorming

  • ​occurs when you write down all possible topics you can think of.

Individual brainstorming

​Searching for a Topic

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​Examples of Categorical Brainstorming

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Open Ended

Let's brainstorm, speech topics based on the category of people?

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Searching for a Topic

  • Conduct a personal inventory-consider featues of your life such as experiences, attitudes, values, beliefs, interests and skills

  • Current topic identification items found in the news, on the media, and on the minds of people in your audience

  • Interest searching - start research early because there is too much information available

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Open Ended

Let's brainstorm, speech topics based on the category of events?

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How to choose a topic that interest you

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Open Ended

You should speak about topics that?

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-content meets audience's expectation

-topic linked to audiences concerns

-narrowed to fit the time allotted​

Significant, timely & tailored.

You

The audience

The situation​

Appropriate to

​Evaluating Topics

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Open Ended

Let's brainstorm, speech topics based on the category of things?

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Fill in the Blank

Type answer...

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​Purposes of Speeches

General

  • Inform - seeks to increase audiences's level of understanding or knowledge about a topic

  • Persuade - seek to influence, reinforce, or modify audience members' feelings, attitudes, beliefs, values or behaviors

  • Special Ocassion​ - presentation that highlights a special event

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Fill in the Blank

Type answer...

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Purposes of Speeches

Specific purpose - indentifies your purpose as an outcome or a behavioral objective

  • Includes general purpose, intended audience, and precise goal

Good purpose statements are:

  • Declarative

  • Complete statements

  • Descriptive and specific

  • ​Focus on one idea​

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​Purpose of Speeches

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Good writing is good writing, but that doesn't mean you can't orchestrate it or tweak - John Travolta

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Fill in the Blank

Type answer...

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Open Ended

Let's brainstorm, speech topics based on the category of places?

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Poll

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How is the pace of the class thus far?

Right on target

Moving to slow

Moving to fast

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​“A talk is a voyage with purpose and it must be charted. The man who starts out going nowhere, generally gets there.”- Dale Carnegie

Selecting a Topic

You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart!

~John Ford​

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