Developing Your Presentation

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An overview of the Public-Speaking Process Understanding Speaker Anxiety Managing Speaker Anxiety Selecting and Narrowing Your Topic Identifying Your Purpose Developing Your Central Idea Generating Main Ideas Gathering Supporting Materials

An Overview ofPublic Speaking The Public-Speaking Process

Select and narrow topic Identify your purpose Develop central idea Generate main ideas Gather supporting material Organize Presentation Rehearse Presentation Deliver Presentation

Overview of Presentational Speaking

Audience-centered presentational speakers are inherently sensitive to the diversity of their audience.

UnderstandingSpeaker Anxiety Speaker anxiety results from your

brain signaling to your body to help with a challenging task. Blood flow Breathing rate Adrenaline

Most speakers feel more nervous than they look.

Managing Speaker Anxiety Know how to Prepare a Presentation Be Prepared Focus on your Audience Focus on your message Think Positively Use deep-breathing Techniques Take Advantage of Opportunities to Speak Seek Professional Help

Selecting & Narrowing Your Topic

Who is the audience? What is the occasion? What are my interests and

experiences? Silent brainstorming Scanning web directories and web

pages Listening and Reading for Topic Ideas

Identifying your Purpose General Purpose

Inform, persuade, entertain Specific Purpose

Concise statement of what your listeners should know or be able to do, i.e.:

At the end of my presentation, the audience will be able to explain the causes and most successful treatments for anorexia & bulimia.

At the end of my presentation, the audience will try Zen meditation.

Developing Your Central Idea The central idea specifies the

topic of the speech and makes some definitive statement about it.

Criteria for Central Ideas: Audience-centered Single topic Complete declarative sentence Specific language

Generating Main Ideas

Use the central Idea to Generate Main Ideas Does the central idea have logical

division? Can you think of several reasons the

central idea is true? Can you support the central idea with

a series of steps of chronological sequence?

Gathering Supporting Material Supporting Material Can be Verbal and

Visual Verbal

Illustrations, explanations, descriptions, definitions, statistics, etc.

Visual Objects, charts, graphs, posters, maps, models,

videos (no more than a 1-minute clip per speech) etc.

Audio Music, CD-ROM, DVD

Sources of supporting Material You and People you know Internet

Criteria for Evaluating Internet Sources Accountability Accuracy Objectivity Date Usability

Library

Sources of Supporting Material

Books Periodicals Newspapers Reference Resources Government Documents Special Services

Types of Supporting Materials

Illustrations Hypothetical illustrations

Descriptions and Explanations Definitions

Classification Operational definitions

Types of Supporting Material Illustrations Descriptions & Explanations Definitions

Analogies Literal analogy Figurative analogy

Statistics Oral citations

Opinions Expert testimony, lay testimony, literary quotations

Acknowledgement of supporting material

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