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Test 1 reminders
• Study the Study Guide!-it tells you
exactly what we are looking for.
• 4 questions (not 5)
• Please BRING A BLUE BOOK to the
test
• Know your Lab Section number
• Last chance to contact me for special
accommodations!
(goodwin@iastate.edu)
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3 Responsibilities of the
Informative Speaker
1. To say something worth hearing (sound
information).
2. To say something that can be heard
(clear organization).
3. To say something that will be heard
(audience engagement).
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A debate among professors
"A professor is responsible for providing a sound,
clearMY
understanding
of a discipline. Anything
subject is extraordinarily
more is "Edutainment,"
not education!"
interesting
It's my job to help
the
audience see this. Nothing needs
to be added, but the interest of my
subject
needs
to have
be made
obvious
"Today's
young
people
grown
up
to internet.
all.
with television and the
If you don't
don't add excitement, they're going to fall asleep!"
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People are "ego-centric."
egocentric  egotistical
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Relate to the Audience
throughout the speech by
adapting your information to
their egocentric point of view.
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translate
these
• Technical details
• Abstract ideas
• Complexities
into
these
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•
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•
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Explanations
Examples
Comparisons
Contrasts
Descriptions
Direct address ("you")
Visual aids
See Lucas pp. 383-391
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What visuals can do:
• Function #1: Convey information which
would be difficult to convey in words.
– map
• Function #2: Clarify information, by
organizing it.
– chart
• Function #3: Relate information to the
audience by engaging their imagination
and emotions.
– human face
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More practice!
Pull out your copy of the 10 Analysis
Questions...
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The 10 Analysis Questions
6. What functions does the speaker
use his/her Visual Aid(s) to
perform?
7. Identify three different ways the
speaker engages the audience in
the body of the speech.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
What is the speaker's General Purpose? What is the speaker's Specific Purpose? What is
the speaker's Central Idea?
What, if anything, does the speaker do to achieve each of the functions of a Speech
Introduction? If the speaker misses one, what could he/she have done to fulfill it?
What are the speaker's Main Points? What Pattern of Organization is the speaker using?
Give one example from the speech of each of three different kinds of Connectives (if
possible). If the speaker fails to use a Connective between any of his/her Main Points,
identify the gap and suggest how the speaker could have filled it.
Identify three Sources which the speaker refers to (if possible). If the speaker neglects to
cite orally the source of any quotation, statistic, or other technical information, identify
the gap, and suggest how the speaker could have filled it.
What functions does the speaker use his/her Visual Aid(s) to perform?
Identify three different ways the speaker engages the audience in the body of the speech.
What, if anything, does the speaker do to achieve the functions of a Speech Conclusion?
If the speaker misses one, what could he/she have done to fulfill it?
What is the one positive comment about the speech that this speaker most needs to hear
now? (Not including delivery.)
What is the one negative comment about the speech that this speaker most needs to hear
now? (Not including delivery.)
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9. What is the one positive comment
about the speech that this speaker
most needs to hear now? (Not
including delivery.)
10. What is the one negative
comment about the speech that this
speaker most needs to hear now?
(Not including delivery.)
Use good judgment!
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Good judgment?
The most important things are the ones
that bear on the informative speaker's
three responsibilities:
-to say something worth hearing
(information)
-to say something that can be heard
(organization)
-to say something that will be heard
(engagement)
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Delivery is never the right answer.
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Designing your Visual Aid
The Goldilocks principle:
Your visual aid should be neither TOO HOT,
Nor TOO COLD,
But JUST RIGHT.
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Just right
• Content: The visual says something
words cannot.
• Design: The visual is simple, yet
effective.
• Presentation: You incorporate the visual
into your speech.
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Informative Speaking
• Invention: Sound information, related to
the audience.
• Organization: Clear!
• Style: No technicalities.
• Memory: 5 notecards.
• Delivery: Practice on Wednesday.
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You
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