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Preparing and Researching PresentationsChapter 11 Real Communication by Dan O’Hair and Mary Weimann
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Public Speaking
This includes a speaker who has a reason for speaking,
an audience, and a message that meets a purpose.
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• Clarify the purpose of your speech!
• to inform
• to persuade
• for a special occasion
• Make a more specific purpose statement.
Start with Research
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Analysis your Audience• Audiences will have expectations.
• Consider the characteristics and demographics of your audience.
• pedestrian audience• passive audience• selected audience• concerted audience• organized audience
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The Process of Choosing a Topic
• Select a topic that interests you.• Use brainstorming or clustering to
help you find your topic.• Make sure you can meet the
assignment requirements.• Develop a thesis statement, which
conveys the central idea, and is more specific than the purpose statement. (page 335)
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Researching Information
• Select a range of information from experts, laymen, statistics, and anecdotes.
• Quotations can be used effectively when short and to the point.
• You can make comparisons or show similarities, make contrasts, or show dissimilarities.
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Researching Information
• Surveys, books, articles, blogs.
• Databases and Library Gateways
• Internet and Search Engines like Google, Ask, Yahoo, Bing.
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Credibility• Are you accurate with your sources?
• Is your material appropriate for your topic and audience?
• Are you using recent information?
• Is your speech relevant?
• Is your supporting material strong, influential, interesting, and believable?
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Ethical SpeakingPlagiarism is stealing
someone else’s words or ideas and calling them your own. Keep track of where
you get your material.
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Ethical Speaking
Take accurate notes for your bibliography: • type of the source• the complete names of authors• titles, subtitles• the publication date, publisher,
publication city• page numbers
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Ethical Speaking
Be trustworthy.Be respectful.
Be responsible.Be fair.
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