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Mastering Public Speaking: Overcoming Apprehension and Engaging Your Audience

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This informative speech will guide you through the fundamentals of public speaking, focusing on overcoming communication apprehension and analyzing your audience effectively. You will learn essential strategies for selecting and narrowing your topic, creating a strong introduction, and organizing your speech for maximum clarity and engagement. Discover the importance of audience analysis and how to connect with listeners, while also addressing common fears associated with public speaking. Prepare to deliver a compelling 5-7 minute speech that informs and resonates with your audience.

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Mastering Public Speaking: Overcoming Apprehension and Engaging Your Audience

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  1. LAB 2 Introduction to public speaking and apprehension and audience analysis

  2. Informative Speech • Due: Sept. 10 • 5-7 min speech, extemporaneous • Inform audience about an object, concept, process, or event. • In order to appeal speech grade you must tape your speech. Provide me with the corresponding DVD to do so

  3. Brainstorm! • In a blank sheet of paper brainstorm topic for your speech. • Pair up and help each other narrow down your topics, remember is a 5-7 minutes speech

  4. Preparation • Select your topic, it has to INFORM! • Appropriate • Narrow appropriately • Analyze your audience, what is your purpose • Search for material, keep a reference list • Organize your information • Find the rubric on CANVAS

  5. Where do I start?? • Strong introduction: • Attention gatherer: Narrative, Quotes, Statistics • Thesis Statement: What you are trying to prove • Preview of the main points of the speech

  6. Example: • AG: Did you know only one can of soda contains 10 teaspoons of sugar (Mercola, 2012) • TH: Soda damages your health • Preview: • Higher cancer risk • Causes DNSA damage • Can damage your heart • Mercola, J. (2012). Can you belive these statistics on soft drink use? Retrieved from http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/04/10/can-you-believe-these-statistics-on-soft-drink-use.aspx

  7. Body • Go in depth of your main points using credible data.

  8. Strong Finish • Summary of the main points • DO NOT give new information! • Clincher: Related to the attention gatherer. • Conclude, NEVER say “That’s it”

  9. Audience AnalysisExercise 5-2 • Complete the worksheet in your book.

  10. Communication Apprehension • Normal state of anxiety when confronted with a speaking situation. • Dryness of mouth, shakiness, blushing, etc. • Causes: Desire to be successful, feeling of inadequacy • How to control Communication apprehension: • Focus on the task • Become message/audience centered • Remember the audience is not there to get you • PRACTICE!!

  11. Situational vs. Dispositional Apprehension • Disposition: the tendency of someone to act in a certain way under certain circumstances • Situational:

  12. HOMEWORK!! • SP, Thesis, and Outline Handouts • Communication Anxiety Index: • www.surveymonkey.com/s/DFDKT85 • Fill your name, student ID • Print record of scores. We will need this for class discussion • SP, Thesis, and Outline Handouts. • One of this will count for your assistance grade next class. • Complete Exercise 5-1 p. 233-235).

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