ELEMENTS OF A

PRESENTATION
TOPIC: Specific aspect of a subject
GOOD TOPIC: Involves you and allows you to express
something important to you.
Enrich lives----useful info and advice
ANALYZING THE AUDIENCE
LISTENERS: Reason and inspiration
Anticipate setting
STUDY OF SPECIFIC AUDIENCE :
 Gather demographic data (by observation, asking to
who scheduled your speech, infer info)
 Make predictions of their level of interest in,
knowledge of, attitudes (among you and your topic)
SUCCESFUL AUDIENCE ADAPTATION:
Adapting audience dynamics: Motivate, relate to
needs, wants, wishes.
Adjusting to audience demographics: Features, age,
gender, educational level, socioculture…
Meeting challenges of audience diversity: Adapt to
diversity: no stereotypes, ethnocentrism, sexism,
racism.
Adjusting to communication situations: Time, place,
size of audience adaptations.
 STEPS
1.- Analyzing audience
2.- Analyzing occasion and setting: Provides
guidelines for both meeting audience expectations and
determining tone os the speech.
 How large will the audience be?
 When will it be given?
 What is the time limit?
 What facilities are necessary to give the speech?
3.- DEFINING SPEECH PURPOSE OR GOAL:
SINGLE DECLARATIVE SENTENCE

TODAY I WANT TO DISCUSS AN UNPLEASANT

SITUATION ON OUR CAMPUS- the epidemic of
using vulgar language, and what we can do about
it.

Function of the speech: Inform, demonstrate,

persuade
Refine your goal----- thesis statement
Specific goal: Exact response the speaker wants from
the audience
3.1 WRITING THESIS STATEMENT
Result of process of refining your goal
Outlines specific elements of the speech supporting
the goal statement
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research before
Use mind maps