Review for Finals

A type of speech that aims to give information about a particular topic

• informative

• persuasive

• entertainment

This is known as checking the profile of your target audience to suit your speech content and delivery.

• Data gathering

• Purpose

• Audience Analysis

The aim of this speech is to inform and educate but also to provide amusement to the audience using a light topic.

• informative

• entertainment

• persuasive

This helps us to focus more on a specific topic by utilizing all the resources we could find.

• Narrowing down a topic

• Outlining

• Writing Patterns

The main goal of this type of speech is to influence the thoughts, behaviors, and actions of the listeners.

• informative

• persuasive

• entertatinment

This gives you an opportunity to identify what works and what does not work for you and for your target audience.

• writing patterns

• data gathering

• rehearsing

This type of writing pattern presents descriptions of your life or of a person, famous or not. The purpose of this is to inform or to entertain.

• chronological

• causal

• biographical

The purpose of this writing pattern is to inform while presenting the idea in time order.

• biographical

• causal

• chronological

This is to plan and organize the writer’s thoughts, to determine in advance what he intends to say and begin at the beginning. 

• purpose

• outlining

• topic

This is known as the main point of your speech. You may use personal experiences, freewriting, listing, asking questions, or semantic webbing.

• purpose

• writing patterns

• topic