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TOPICS FOR THE FINAL ASSESSMENT ONPUBLIC SPEAKING

1. Introduction to Public Speaking- Why Study Public Speaking

- Public Speaking and Conversation

- The Communication Process

- Improving Your Confidence as Speaker

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

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

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

5. Gathering Supporting Material / Supporting Your Speech

- Personal Knowledge and Experience

- The Internet

- Library Resources

- Interviews

- Resources From Special-Interest Groups and Organizations

- Research Strategies

- Illustrations / Descriptions and Explanations

- Definitions / Analogies

- Statistics / Opinions

- Selecting the Best Supporting Material

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6. 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

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

8. Speaking to Inform

- Goals of Informative Speaking

- Types of Informative Speeches

- Strategies for Informing Your Listener

9. 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

10. 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

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