FINAL ASSESSMENT ON PUBLIC SPEAKING

2018-2019 – sem. 1

1. Introduction to Public Speaking

- Why Study Public Speaking
- Public Speaking and Conversation
- The Communication Process
- Improving Your Confidence as Speaker

FINAL ASSESSMENT ON PUBLIC SPEAKING

2018-2019 – sem. 1

2. Listening
- Stages in Listening
- Barriers to Effective Listening
- Becoming a Better Listener
- Improving Your Note-Taking Skills
- Listening and Critical Thinking
- Analyzing and Evaluating Speeches

FINAL ASSESSMENT ON PUBLIC SPEAKING

2018-2019 – sem. 1

3. Analyzing Your Audience

- Becoming an Audience-Centered Speaker
- What Is Audience Analysis
- Analyzing Your Audience Before You Speak
- Adapting to Your Audience as You Speak
- Analyzing Your Audience After You Speak

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4. Overview of the Speechmaking Process / Developing Your Speech

- Select and Narrow Your Topic
- Determine Your Purpose
- Develop Your Central Idea
- Generate, Organize and Subdivide Your Main Ideas
- Integrate and Organize Supporting Material
- Why Use Visual Aids? / Types of Visual Aids

FINAL ASSESSMENT ON PUBLIC SPEAKING

2018-2019 – sem. 1

5. Gathering Supporting Material / Supporting Your Speech

- Personal Knowledge and Experience
- The Internet / Library Resources / Interviews
- Research Strategies
- Illustrations / Descriptions and Explanations
- Definitions / Analogies / Statistics / Opinions
- Selecting the Best Supporting Material

FINAL ASSESSMENT ON PUBLIC SPEAKING

2018-2019 – sem. 1

6. Speaking to Inform
- Goals of Informative Speaking
- Types of Informative Speeches
- Strategies for Informing Your Listener

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7. Using Words Well: Speaker Language and Style

- Oral Versus Written Language Style
- Using Words Effectively
- Crafting Memorable Word Structures
- Tips for Using Language Effectively
- Speaking Freely / Speaking Ethically

FINAL ASSESSMENT ON PUBLIC SPEAKING

2018-2019 – sem. 1

8. Principles and Strategies of Persuasive Speaking

- What Is Persuasion?
- Motivating Listeners
- Developing Your Persuasive Speech
- Putting Persuasive Principles into Practice
- Establishing Credibility
- Using Logic and Evidence to Persuade
- Using Emotion to Persuade
- Strategies for Adapting Ideas to People and People to Ideas
- Strategies for Organizing Persuasive Messages

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9. Special Occasion-Speaking
- Public Speaking in the Workplace
- Ceremonial speaking
- Types:
o speeches of praise and blame (simple forms of praise /
blame);
o speeches of response and farewell / speeches of
celebration / factual explanation / goodwill speeches /
inspirational speeches / entertaining speeches

FINAL ASSESSMENT ON PUBLIC SPEAKING

2018-2019 – sem. 1

10. Outlining Your Speech / Introducing and Concluding Your Speech /

Delivering Your Speech
- Preparation and Delivery Outline
- Purposes of and Effective Introductions
- Purposes of and Effective Conclusions
- Inspirational Appeals or Challenge
- Rehearsing Your Speech
- Importance, Methods and Characteristics of Effective Delivery
- Audience Diversity and Delivery