Written

Report
In
Purposive
Communication

Submitted by:
Judy- Ann S. Galvan
Janeth Alexis D. Banez
Maricel B. Gabon
BEED-1

Submitted to:
Charilyn Delos Santos
Instructor
Responsibilities of a Speaker
Unless a speaker catches and hold the interests of the audience, he or she can do little to
influence them. The speaker who cannot hold the interest of the audience is wasting away time
on the platform. Unless the audience is interested in what the speaker is saying, audience will not
absorb information; they will not be convinced or persuaded; and they certainly cannot be
impressed or entertained.
If you wish to be an effective speaker, you should aim to secure four types of response
from the audience. Make them:
a. Wake up. This means captures the attention of the audience. Keep your audience away
from whatever mental pursuits they are engaged in, and they are awake to the
significance of what you have to say.
b. Sit Up. You should heighten that interest so that audience will respond physically.
c. Perk Up. Your third goal is to stir the audience into a lively and animated concern over
your ideas. You should secure an emotional as well as intellectual response.
d. Speak Up. The audience will speak up through applause and cheers, perhaps even with
questions or personal comments.
Three Types of Interest:
1.The Primary Interest- This refers to the basic concerns essentials to the audience welfare.
Health, Financial, Security, Affection, Approval of one’s work achievement, maybe considered
as primary interests.
2. Secondary Interest- This includes those concern which, though not vital, are influential.
Secondary interests vary from one person to another or from one group to another.
3. Momentary Interest- This refers to those which arise out of the happenings of the day. They
may exceedingly intense for a brief period of time. But in a few days some other momentary
interests will always find its way to end an interests of the audience.

Platform Poise and Etiquette

Speaking has its code of etiquettes which is just as important as social manners. The
following points should be observed.
1. Be considerate of other speakers who are on the platform with you. Courtesy should be
observed at all times. Those who have spoken may be conversing in whispers or passing notes
back and forth to each other. Two who are about to speak may have their notes hands studying
them.
2. Dress appropriately. In general, the speaker should suit his attire to the formality or
informality of the occasion and be sure your clothing is appropriate.
3. Take your position on the platform calmly and confidently. A general tendency among
beginning speakers is to hurry to the platform and commence speaking even before they
completely arrive.
4. When several speakers go to the platform together, the principal speaker should go first, and
the chairman last. The seating arrangement should be determined in advance, so that each
speaker can go directly to his chair, without fumbling about.
5. As you rise to speak, attend to your audience rather than to your clothes. Many speakers have
developed the habits of buttoning and unbuttoning their coats, adjusting their neckties, removing
and putting on their glasses.
6. Turn and acknowledge the chairman, either with a slight nod or with the words, “Mr. or
Madam Chairman.” Then similarly either by your actions or by words acknowledge the
audience. This is an act of a simple courtesy.
7. Maintain a well-poised and effective bodily posture while speaking. The feet should not be
held too close together so that the speaker looks like a post.
8. Distribute your remarks fairly and unobtrusively to the audience. It is necessary to vary the
direction of your speaking from time to time. The audience wants to be a part of your attention.
9. When you have concluded your speech, avoid the time-word, “I think you.” If the speaker has
done his job conscientiously and well, he/she is the one to be thanked.

Different types of speeches for special occasions:

1. Speech of Introduction- This type of speech is usually given by a chairperson or a person
who is especially well acquainted with the person being introduced. It must be briefed and
should emphasized the importance of the speaker’s subject and his/her expertise on the subject.
2. Speech for Courtesy- are given to fulfill one of the three obligations:
Welcoming Visitors. When a distinguished guest is present, someone, usually the
presiding officer should extend him a public greeting.
Responding to a welcome greeting. An individual who is welcomed must expressed his
appreciation to the person or the group who has welcomed him.
Accepting Awards. When an individual is presented an award for some especial
accomplishments, he is obligated to acknowledge this honor.
3. Speech of Tribute- A speaker may be called upon to pay tribute to another person’s qualities
or achievements. Speeches of tribute range from:
a. Awarding of a trophy or a medal, award after a contest or an outstanding achievement
or meritorious service.
 b. Eulogy at a memorial service, paying public honor to the dead
c. Saying farewell to a person who retires or leaves a company or when somebody
generally admired leaves the community where he has lived or the office where he was
connected.
4. Speech of Goodwill- The objective of a goodwill speech is to inform. It seeks to enhance the
audience appreciation of a particular institution or profession. Typical situations requiring
speeches of goodwill are:
a. Luncheon-club meetings. This kind is semi-social in nature having a congenial
atmosphere. Members are people who belong to the same business or professional group.
b. Educational Programs. School authorities, club leaders or religious organizations often
leaders or religious often arrange educational programs for their students, patrons and members.
c. Special demonstration programs. Special programs are frequently presented by
university extension departments, government agencies and business organizations.

Examples of the Different Types of Speeches

1.Speech of Dedication
The Testimony of Sculptures
Since very ancient times, men have set up a marker, or designated some stone or tree, to
hold the memory of a deed or happening, far longer than any man’s lifetime. Some of these
memorial objects have live longer than man’s collective memory, so that we now ponder the
meaning of a monument, or whether instead it is only a natural object.
There is something that makes us want a solid presence, a substantial form, to be the
tangible touchstone of the mind, designed and made to endure as witness or record, as if we
mistrusted that seemingly frail yet amazingly tough skein of words and symbols that serves
memory and which, despite of being mere ink blots and punch-holes, nonetheless succeeds in
preserving the long human tradition, firmer than any stone, tougher than any metal.
We still choose stone or metal to be our tangible reminders, and for these solid enduring
forms we return to the men who are carvers of stones and molders of metal, for it is they who
have given lasting form to our myths through the Centuries.
2.Example of Eulogy
“At His Brother’s Grave”
3. Sample Speeches
“A Few word of my Own”