1. Chapter 7 Speech: Exploring Communication
Preparing Your Speech
Chapter 7
Speech: Exploring Communication

2. Goals When we finish today you should be able to:
Identify ways to choose a speech topic
Prepare a speech outline
Recognize the importance of rehearsal

3. Focusing on Your Topic Selecting a general subject Deciding on purpose
Fit it to interests of audience and time limit

4. 2) Selecting a general subject
Write down as many subjects that fascinate you.
Your topics don’t have to be revolutionary or unusual to be interesting.

5. (Quest. 4): Choosing a Topic
Audience – how much do they know?
Message – What do you want them to know?

6. 1) Analyze Your Audience
Ask the following questions:
How much about my topic do my audience members know?
What can I tell them about this topic that they do not already know?
Will this topic interest some audience members more than others?
How can I make this topic interesting to the majority of the class?

7. (Quest. 5) Testimonials:
A personal account of your experiences or the anecdotal stories of others.
Consider: Are they relevant?
Consider: Are they offensive
Consider: Do they ADD to the overall value of the speech?
Remember: Make sure they are not too lengthy!

8. 7) Purpose
Major purposes:
Inform
Persuade
Entertain
Introduce
Welcome

9. 3) Purpose Sentence A.K.A. Thesis Statement
Precise statement that tell your listeners what you want them to know, think, believe, or do as result of hearing your speech
See examples on page 179 (SEC)

10. 6) Organizing and outlining Your Speech
Depending on your specific purpose your organization will vary.
Chronological pattern
Spatial
Topical
Problem-solution pattern
Monroe’s motivated sequence
String-of-beads pattern

11. 8a) Chronological Pattern
Organization proceeds from past to present to future.
In other words, the speech develops in the same order that the events develop in time.

12. 8b) Spatial
Organization is tied together by space arrangements, rather than by time sequence.

13. 8c) Topical
Organization where the subject is broken down into its natural parts.
Example: U.S. Congress
Senate and House
Then subdivided into Democrats and Republicans

14. 8d) Problem-solution Pattern
Speaker devotes roughly the first half of the speech to describing the problem that exists, or is about to occur
The second half develops one or more solutions
Example: presidential addresses on national television

15. 8e) Monroe’s Motivated Sequence
Originally suggested by Alan Monroe
Used when giving persuasive speeches
Five separate steps
The attention step - created by a shocking story or statistic, or through quotation.
The need step - problem won’t go away on its own - action is needed.
The satisfaction step - offer viable solutions.
The visualization step - details of what will happen if actions are taken
The action step - what action the audience can take.

16. 8f) String-of-Beads Pattern
Used mainly for after-dinner speeches or entertaining
Consists of a series of stories, jokes, or anecdotes strung out like beads on a string and tied loosely to some weak central theme.

17. Outlines An outline must accompany your speech
You must use the prescribed outlines that I provide.
General Speech Outline
Depending on the type of speech, your outline will change (#9)

18. 10) Rehearsal Rehearse over three day period Find a place to rehearse
Plant the pattern of ideas in your mind (This is not memorizing)
Rehearse alone and with friends or family
Time rehearsal