Midterm Review - Public Speaking

Gather material, create contents, and form arguments. Research and gather facts, statistics, examples, stories, quotations, stories, quotations, images, and other content that will fill your presentation.  Form your key arguments and clarify your message.

• Style

• Memory

• Invention

• Delivery

Organize your presentation. Decide how you organize your introduction, body, and conclusion and their component parts. Decide how even small portions (e.g., quotations, statistics, story, etc.) best flow from one piece to the next.

• Invention

• Arrangement

• Style

• Memory

Choose language that is tailored to your audience, the occasion, and your goals. Language artfully communicates emotions and moods just as much as it conveys information

• Invention

• Memory

• Delivery

• Style

Stand And Speak To Bring Your Message To Life

Emphasize your message with good eye contact, posture, gestures, and movements. Use confident volume, clear enunciation, the right pace, and thoughtful pauses to highlight your key ideas. Avoid verbal fillers or other distracting mannerisms.

• Delivery

• Memory

• Style

• Arrangement

Know Your Stuff

Practice, practice, practice until you have internalized your message. Have a clear command over your message and all information therein. If needed, you should be able to improvise and handle Q&A. It is not so much as “memorizing”, but learning, practicing, and knowing.

• Invention

• Arrangement

• Memory

• Style

Process of sending and receiving messages, and it occurs whenever we express ourselves in a manner that is clearly understood.

• communication

• sender

• receiver

• feedback

Name the four types of communications

• written communication

• verbal communication

• nonverbal communication

• symbol

• All are forms of communication

The major part of a speech.

• introduction

• body

• conclusion

• preview

The very beginning of a speech; the first thing out of a speaker's mouth.

• introduction

• body

• conclusion

• review

The closing part of a speech and should be strong.

• introduction

• body

• conclusion

• preview