PUBLIC SPEAKING

refers to the talent of effectively addressing an audience. Whether it is in front of a group of people you already know or a crowd of complete strangers, your ability to communicate to them with clarity and confidence

(a)  

(JUST READ)Public Speaking demonstrates your knowledge, develops and demonstrates your confidence, and helps you lead better. In Public Speaking it is also important that you know the following:

Audience: Who are they? What qualities about them are relevant?

Occasion: Where will it happen? What time? What are the reasons?

Purpose: What is the general purpose of the speaker that he wants to accomplish? (Type N)

(a)  

The speaker helps the audience to:

1. acquire information that they do not yet possess,

2. understand something,

3. perform a new task,

4. improve their skills, or

5. gain knowledge.

• To Inform

• To Persuade

• To Entertain

(JUST READ) Types of Informative Topics

1. Objects 2. People 3. Events 4. Concepts 5. Processes 6. Issues

(Type N)

(a)  

The speaker helps the audience to:

1. think a certain way,

2. encourage to use knowledge in a specific way

3. embrace a point of view

4. adopt a behavior

5. call for action

6. make some change in their behavior or thinking

• To Inform

• To Persuade

• To Entertain

means to convince an audience of the author’s credibility or character. An author would use it to show to his audience that he is a credible source and is worth listening to.

• Ethos

• Logos

• Pathos

• Kairos

• Mythos

the emotional appeal, means to persuade an audience by appealing to their emotions. Authors use it to invoke sympathy from an audience to make the audience feel what the author wants them to feel. it can be developed by using meaningful language, emotional tone, emotion evoking examples, stories of emotional events and implied meanings.

• Ethos

• Logos

• Pathos

• Kairos

• Mythos

appeal to logic, means to convince audience by use of logic or reason. It is to appeal to logic by relying on the audience’s intelligence and offering evidence in support of the speaker’s argument. It also develops ethos because the information makes you look knowledgeable. It can be developed by using advanced, theoretical or abstract language, citing facts, using historical and literal analogies and by constructing logical arguments

• Ethos

• Logos

• Pathos

• Kairos

• Mythos

refers to the timeliness of the argument. It also refers to the opportune time and or place—that is the right or appropriate time to say or do the right or appropriate thing.

• Ethos

• Logos

• Pathos

• Kairos

• Mythos

refers to the narrative argument. As the speaker deliver the persuasive appeal, what story does the audience already believe? The speaker should find a way to make his appeal part of that already shared, revered, ongoing story.

• Ethos

• Logos

• Pathos

• Kairos

• Mythos