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Welcome to Speaking Welcome to Speaking 101101
What Good Speakers What Good Speakers Need to KnowNeed to Know
Welcome to Speaking Welcome to Speaking 101101
What Good Speakers What Good Speakers Need to KnowNeed to Know
ByByMrs. MilisMrs. Milis
http://209.197.86.65/19580222/themes/disney/Fantasmic.mid
Traits of Effective Speaking
• Idea Development (explanations, demonstrations, illustrations, clarifications, definitions, elaborations)
• Organization (Intro, Body, Conclusion)• Voice (Pitch, Volume, Rate, Stress, Inflection)• Word Choice (emotional appeal- connotation
vs. denotation) • Body Language (para-language
matches/enhances content and purpose)• Conventions (oral grammar structures must
match written grammar structures ARTICULATE)
Know Your AudienceAsk yourself these
questions before writing
• Who is my audience?• What does my
audience know?• What do my audience
need to know?
Trying to Make all the Traits Work Together…• Can be a pretty
difficult balancing act!
Body Language
Word Choice
Voice
Idea Development
ConventionsOrganization
Know Your Exact Purpose
• Ask yourself: What am I trying to accomplish with this speech?
To entertain?To describe?To explain?To define?To persuade?To inform?
Your Purpose and Tone Should be Connected!
Tone comes from the words and examples you decide to choose to convey your purpose. In the words of Jennifer St. Julian, “You could change the meaning of an speech with just one word if you do it right.”
Ask yourself: What do I want my audience to know? How do I want my audience to feel? What do I want my audience to do?Then: Choose words and examples to carefully
achieve these writing objectives
Appropriate and Sufficient Content
Ask yourself:• Are my examples and details
suited to this particular purpose and audience? Did I provide enough information?
• Do I know enough about my topic?• How can I find out what I don’t
know?
What is Quality Public speaking?
• Quality Speech is clear and interesting to its particular audience.
• Quality Speech successfully achieves its purposes.