Read Units 15 &16: “Support, Style, Organization, and Presentation” (pages 326-388).
Define the following terms in your own words. Do not use textbook definitions, but imagine how you would describe these terms to other students.
1. Thesis: A thesis is used to tell the audience what they are going to here in simple statement that helps create main point and keep the audience focused on what is going to be said.
2. Narratives: Narratives are stories that can be used to explain complex ideas while gaining audience attention.
3. Analogies: Analogiies compare things. This can be useful to make the aduience believe what your saying.
4. Testimony: A testimony is opions of those of value depending upon different subjects.
5. Presentation aids: Presentation aids draw a picture for the audience. They explain ideas, reinforce ideas, and demonstrate ideas. With presentation aids it makes the presentation more memorable by the audience.
6. Models: Modles are a representation of real objects. It is a way to explain something complicated. Like noted in the book and example of a model could be a DNA strand. Because of the complexity of DNA and how small it is, a model can help explain what DNA is and is doing.
7. Motivated Sequence: The moticated sequence is a five step speech that is used in order to obtain excitement on certain topics. The five steps are: 1)Attention 2)Need 3)Satisfaction 4)Visualization 5)Action
8. Orientation: This is to make the audience comfortable with the subject. It lays out what is going to be said and/ or done.
9. Closure: Closure is a way to end your speech using something that is powerfull and to the point.
Name 3 examples of presentation aids.
1. Photographs
2. Charts
3. Video's
Name 6 patterns that are involved with Public Speaking.
1. Temporal Pattern
2. Spatial Pattern
3. Topical Pattern
4. Problem-Solution Pattern
5. Cause-Effect/Effect-Cause Pattern
6. Motivated Sequence Pattern
What is the difference between a conclusion and closure? A closure is part of a conclusion. The closer serves as the ending point of the speech completely. Where as, the conclusion not only inclueds the closer but, also a summary and motivation.
Find an article in a magazine or newspaper and summarize it in 4 sentences below.
1. Article Title: Cell Phone Addition Take A Break
2. Summary: The article establishes the point that it may be good for us to dissconect from our cell phones. The author, Ciara DeRemee points out that there use to be a time when cell phones were not even around however, today as a society we find it hard to imagine ourselfs disconnected from our cell phone devices. In addition, she questions, "Wouldn't you think they would get tired of going through this world always connected and always knowing everything?" She conclueds the article by stating, that it would be a good to consider disconnecting ourselfs from our cell phone devices for short periods of time by doing other things such as, going for a jog.
Based on your own performance, and your observations of others in class, please describe five ways in which you will make a conscious improvement during your final.
1. I want to make sure I am more prepared for my speech by practicing several times.
2. I want to avoid awkward pauses.
3. Get rid of the um's completely.
4. Provide a better closure; I always conclued but, I am not sure if I give closer.
5. Use simpler words. I learned from our debate and unit 16 that I tend to use large words that people who are not familar with the same knowledge as me, do not understand what I am saying.
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