Ch. 8 15 Supporting Your Ideas and Speaking to Inform PDF

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COMG 251
Principles of Effective Public Speaking
Spring 2018, Jaymian Urashima Lecture...

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2/2/18 Supporting Your Ideas Examples: ● Specific case/instance ● Types: ○ Brief examples: one time instances ○ Extended examples: ran through entire speech, referred back to during the speech ○ Hypothetical examples: imaginative situations (to formulate a picture) Using Examples: ● Use to clarify your ideas ● Use to reinforce your ideas ● Use to personalize your ideas ● Make examples vivid ● Practice delivery of examples Statistics: numerical data ● Mean ● Median ● Mode Using Statistics: ● Use to quantify your ideas ● Use sparingly ● Identify your sources ● Explain your statistics ● Round off complicated statistics ● Use visual aids to clarify Testimony: quotations or paraphrases to support a point ● Expert testimony ● Peer testimony Using Testimony: ● Quote or paraphrase accurately ● Use testimony from qualified sources ● Use testimony from unbiased sources ● Identify the people you quote or paraphrase Citing Sources Orally: ● No standard format ● Include information that will increase credibility ○ Name of document ○ Author or sponsoring organization ○ Qualifications ○ Date Speaking to Inform Informative Speeches: ● Designed to convey knowledge and understanding ● Criteria: ○ Communicate accurately ○ Communicate clearly ○ Information is meaningful and interesting ● Organizational Patterns: ○ Chronological ○ Spatial ○ Causal ○ Problem-solution

○ Topical ● Types of Informative Speeches: ○ Objects: anything visible, tangible, stable in form ■ Organization: ● Chronological ● Spatial ● Topical ○ Processes: systematic series of actions ■ Organization: ● Chronological ● Topical ○ Events: anything that happened/is happening ■ Organization: ● Chronological ● Topical ○ Concepts: belief, theory, idea, notion, principle, etc. ■ Organization: ● Topical ■ More complex speech ○ People: usually well-known ■ Be selective ■ Organization: ● Chronological ● Topical ● Guidelines: ○ Don’t overestimate audience knowledge ○ Relate the subject to audience ○ Don’t be too technical ○ Avoid abstractions ○ Personalize your ideas ○ Be creative...