Planning Public Speaking

Uses and builds on skills and principles we’ve dis-

cussed previously.
90%

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Public communication is also like conversation in a second way.

Choose and Refine a Topic

1. Choose Your Topic.

   • That matters to you.

   • Appropriate to the speaking occasion, and audience.

   • Narrow Your Topic.

Stages:

1. Decide.
2. Refine.

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​Define Your General and Specific Purposes

Communication Skills

Planning Public Speaking

Like a conversation.


Uses and builds on skills and principles we've discussed previously.

Public speaking

90 %

Choose and refine a topic

Choose Your Topic.

• That matters to you.

• Appropriate to the speaking occasion, and audience.

• Narrow Your Topic

Define Your General and Specific Purposes

Stages:

1. Decide.
2. Refine.

Fill in the Blanks

What type of tool can you use to refine your topic?

Multiple Choice

Three general speaking purposes have been recognized:

• To inform, to persuade, to entertain
• To analyze
• To criticize
• To summarize

Multiple Choice

"To help listeners understand the balloting procedure used in the 2000 presidential elections in Florida", is an example of...

• Persuasion

• Entertainment

• Inform

GOAL:
Increasing listeners understanding, awareness, or knowledge about some topic.

​​Inform

Persuade

​GOAL:
To interest, amuse, or please

listeners.

​​Entertain

​GOAL:
Aim to change or reinforce people’s attitudes, beliefs, or behaviors or to motivate people to act.

Word Cloud

Explain how to use "Storytelling" as a tool.

Behavioral objective or observable response that will indicate you achieved your communication goal.

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​Specific purpose

Thesis statement

​What is it?

The main idea of an entire speech.

• Ineffective

• Effective

Multiple Choice

Choose the ineffective thesis statement.

• Global warming is a myth.
• Climate change is a hoax.
• The weather is always changing.
• Many people think that climate change is important.

Open Ended

Write an effective thesis statement.

Steps in Planning Public Speaking

1. Identify the broad topic.

2. Narrow the topic.

3. Define a general purpose.

4. Determine a specific purpose.

5. Develop a thesis statement.