Demographics

Age
Sex/gender
Religion
Ethnicity/race
Regionality
Urban/suburban/rural
Able-bodiness/disability
Group membership
Education
Sexual orientation
Exceptionality
Socioeconomic status
Family structure/situation
Birth Order

Introduction

Functions of a speech introduction

o Gain attention
o State your topic
o Establish importance (significance, interest, usefulness)
o Establish credibility
o Preview key ideas (organization)
Strategies
o Question your audience (dont ask them)
o Arouse curiosity
o Stimulate imagination/interest
o Promise something beneficial (?)
o Amuse your audience
o Energize your audience
o Acknowledge/compliment

Get the audiences attention

Give a startling fact or statistics

Use appropriate humor
Give a quotation
Rhetorical question
Refer to historic/recent events
Give a personal reference
Refer to occasion/preceding speech

Conclusions

Summarize key ideas

Provide closure
o Verbal alert

Formal Outline to notecards

Steps

Attention-getting
Statement of topic
Emphasis on speakers cred
Preview
Body of speech
Summary
Closure
OUTLINE TEMPLATE

Transition a statement that connects parts of the speech and indicates the nature
of their connection.
Notecards

3x5 notecards
1 side only
Light in color
Bullet points
Stats/quotes
Sources to cite
Written so you can read it
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