CHAPTER REVIEW

CHAPTER14 REVIEW

Chapter Recap

CHAPTER RECAP

  • Your speech thesis will guide the structure of your speech. Evolving from your specific purpose statement, it will inform your audience of your position on the topic and provide insight into your main points.

  • The body of your speech contains your main points, which are backed up by your supporting materials.

  • The organizational pattern you choose (topical, chronological, spatial, cause-effect, or problem-solution) will help your audience understand and follow your speech’s main points.

  • Both the introduction and the conclusion serve important purposes in a speech. These are moments when you have the opportunity to gain listeners’ attention, disclose your thesis, establish credibility, connect to your audience, preview and summarize your main points, prepare listeners for the end of your speech, and make a final impression.

  • Developing preparation and delivery outlines helps you plan the flow and logic of your speech and keeps you on task during the actual presentation, making you a more successful speaker.

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ACTIVITIES

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  1. Speech Analysis

    Find a professional speech that interests you. Try a TED talk (available at ted.com/talks), or search databases like Gifts of Speech (gos.sbc.edu) or American Rhetoric (americanrhetoric.com). In a brief paper, identify the speech thesis, its main points, and the organizational pattern. Additionally, analyze how well the speaker engages listeners through novelty, humor, stories, and presentation media.

    1. Find a professional speech that interests you. Try a TED talk (available at ted.com/talks), or search databases like Gifts of Speech (gos.sbc.edu) or American Rhetoric (americanrhetoric.com). In a brief paper, identify the speech thesis, its main points, and the organizational pattern. Additionally, analyze how well the speaker engages listeners through novelty, humor, stories, and presentation media.

  2. Introduction Redo

    Review the attention-getter used in the speech outline for “Protect the Largest Organ in Your Life” by Jessica Bordonaro on page 370. Working with a group of classmates, brainstorm additional ways to gain listeners’ attention if you were giving this speech. Choose one of the alternatives and present it to the class, explaining why you selected that one over the other ideas.

    2. Review the attention-getter used in the speech outline for “Protect the Largest Organ in Your Life” by Jessica Bordonaro on page 370. Working with a group of classmates, brainstorm additional ways to gain listeners’ attention if you were giving this speech. Choose one of the alternatives and present it to the class, explaining why you selected that one over the other ideas.