Oral Comm: Demonstration speech

The more you can get your audience involved, the more engaged they will be in your speech and this is why it is good to have ____.

• attention grabber

• audience participation

• process speech

• common ground

a way of concisely and gracefully expressing the essential idea of your speech

• attention grabber

• thesis statement

• process speech

• common ground

focuses on how something works, how to do something, or how something developed

• common ground

• process speech

• credibility

• thesis statement

If you build _______ with your audience they will better understand how the information in your speech relates to them.

• process speech

• common ground

• variations

• credibility

informs audience on how the process could be altered or possibly created in a new or different way.

• variations

• transition

• common ground

• credibility

a way to actively involve or engage the audience in a speech. This can be done in a variety of ways including, surveying, sampling, modeling, hands-on activities, etc.

• common ground

• thesis statement

• attention grabber

• audience participation

grabs attention with startling detail, anecdote, or quote.

• process speech

• attention grabber

• common ground

• thesis statement

a word, phrase or sentence that connects ideas in order to move from one point to the next

• variations

• transition

• thesis statement

• credibility

establishes why learning information is important to the audience

• common ground

• attention grabber

• process speech

• credibility

establishes how the speaker has become an authority on the topic either through past experience or research

• credibility

• process speech

• transition

• common ground