HCOM
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hcom_.docxWeek 11
Thursday: Discuss Public Speaking
Ethos: Credibility / Trustworthiness
Pathos: Passion / Emotion
Logos: Logic / Reason
· Chapter 12: Preparing and Researching Presentations
a. Public Speaking: speaking to an audience with a specific purpose and goal.
b. Informative Speeches: to increase audience knowledge by presenting new, relevant and useful information.
c. Audience Analysis
i. Demographics: college students and teacher.
d. Choosing Your Topic
i. Impact of Social Media
e. Thesis statement: a statement that summarizes the message you want your audience to accept.
f. Evidence: The sources has to be from 6 to 9 sources
i. Sources
ii. Credible sources
g. Reference page
i. APA
· Chapter 13: Organizing, Writing, and Outlining Presentations
a. Main points: the central claims in your speech.
i. Organizing main points: MP1, MP2, MP3
ii. Sub-points: support for your main points, each main point has to have 2 to 3 sub-points
b. Pattern
i. Chronological
ii. Problem – Solution
iii. Cause – Effect
iv. Motivated – Sequence
c. Signposts: transitions
i. Attention getter: surprising fact, short story, a quote, ask a question.
ii. Preview of main points
iii. Thesis: a statement that summarizes the message you want your audience to accept.
e. Conclusion: Restate your topic, preview, thesis, main points, and call to action.
f. Speech Outline
i. Sentence outline
ii. Phrase outline
iii. Key-word outline
g. Outline Samples: page 397
· Chapter 14: Delivering Presentations
a. Performance visualization: imagine yourself confidently speaking before the audience.
b. You will speak from memorization and note cards. You will get “0” points of you “read” to your audience. Make it conversational.
c. Vocal Delivery:
i. Monotone is distracting and bores the audience
ii. Speaking too fast or too slow
iii. Use pauses for effect (you should work on pauses)
iv. Dress to impress: credibility
v. Scan audience to maintain eye contact and built immediacy
d. Body movements:
i. Display a confident posture
ii. Use gestures and illustrators to compliment
e. Emotion:
i. If you’re bored, we’re bored. Put life into your speech.
ii. Create immediacy
f. Visual Aid: create a bullet point - power point with images, graphs, models, etc.
g. Practicing: memorize your outline, simulate the situation, practice delivery,
· Chapter 15: Informative Speaking
a. Informative Speaking is simply to teach your audience something new.
b. We’re not persuading, be objective.
c. Speech Topics: People, Places, Objects, Phenomena, Events, Processes, Concepts, Issues, Plans and Policies.
d. Make your speech simple and to the point, don’t overwhelm the audience
e. Define your terms before you speak them, do not alienate the audience
f. Speech outline: page 464.
Week 12
Tuesday: No School
Thursday: Informative Speech outline due.
