The Essential Elements of Public Speaking

by DeVito, Joseph A.

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2nd

ISBN13:

9780205423811

ISBN10:

0205423817

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Pub. Date:

1/1/2006

Publisher(s):

Allyn & Bacon

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This brief, skills-focused, and highly interactive presentation of public speaking emphasizes the newest research methods and critical listening and thinking. The Essential Elements of Public Speakingis a concise exploration of the ins and outs of public speaking and makes a clear link between theory and practiceall in only twelve chapters.

Specialized Contents

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Welcome to The Essential Elements of Public Speaking

Introducing Public Speaking

(28)

Studying Public Speaking

(10)

The Benefits of Public Speaking

(3)

The Essential Elements of Public Speaking

(4)

Culture, Gender, and Public Speaking

(2)

Managing Your Apprehension

(5)

Reversing the Factors That Cause Apprehension

(2)

Practicing Performance Visualization

(1)

Systematically Desensitizing Yourself

(1)

Preparing a Public Speech: In Brief

(12)

Step 1: Select Your Topic and Purpose

(1)

Step 2: Analyze Your Audience

(1)

Step 3: Research Your Topic

(1)

Step 4: Develop Your Thesis and Main Points

(1)

Step 5: Support Your Main Points

(1)

Step 6: Organize Your Speech Materials

(1)

Step 7: Word Your Speech

(1)

Step 8: Construct Your Introduction, Conclusion, and Transitions

(1)

Step 9: Rehearse Your Speech

(1)

Step 10: Deliver Your Speech

(1)

Summary of Concepts and Skills

(1)

Vocabulary Quiz: Introducing Public Speaking

(1)

Web Explorations

(1)

Public Speaking Exercises

(1)

Constructing a Speech

(1)

Analyzing a Speech of Introduction

(3)

Listening and Criticism

(22)

Listening to Speeches

(10)

What Is Listening?

(3)

Culture and Listening

(3)

Guidelines for Listening More Effectively

(4)

Criticizing Speeches

(11)

What Is Criticism?

(1)

Culture and Criticism

(1)

Guidelines for Criticizing More Effectively

(5)

Summary of Concepts and Skills

(1)

Vocabulary Quiz: Listening and Criticism

(1)

Web Explorations

(1)

Public Speaking Exercises

(1)

Do You Really Remember What You Hear?

(1)

Understanding Your Own Listening Barriers

(1)

Analyzing a Poorly Constructed Informative Speech

(2)

Selecting Your Topic, Purpose, and Thesis

(21)

Your Topic

(6)

Finding Topics

(2)

Limiting Topics

(3)

Your Purpose

(4)

General Purposes

(1)

Specific Purposes

(3)

Your Thesis

(10)

Use Your Thesis to Generate Main Ideas

(1)

Use Your Thesis to Organize

(1)

Use Your Thesis Strategically

(1)

Summary of Concepts and Skills

(1)

Vocabulary Quiz: Topics, Purposes, and Theses

(1)

Web Explorations

(1)

Public Speaking Exercises

(1)

Brainstorming for Topics

(1)

Limiting Topics

(1)

Using Cultural Beliefs as Assumptions in Public Speaking

(1)

Analyzing a Poorly Constructed Persuasive Speech

(2)

Analyzing and Adapting to Your Audience

(26)

Audiences and Audience Analysis

(5)

The Audience: Two Basic Characteristics

(1)

Learning about Your Audience

(4)

Analyzing Audience Sociology

(8)

Cultural Factors

(1)

Age

(1)

Gender

(2)

Affectional Orientation

(1)

Educational and Intellectual Levels

(1)

Religion and Religiousness

(1)

Other Audience Factors

(1)

Context Characteristics

(1)

Analyzing Audience Psychology

(3)

How Willing Is Your Audience?

(1)

How Favorable Is Your Audience?

(1)

How Knowledgeable Is Your Audience?

(1)

Analysis and Adaptation during the Speech

(9)

Focus on Listeners as Message Senders

(1)

Ask ``What If'' Questions

(1)

Address Audience Responses Directly

(1)

Summary of Concepts and Skills

(1)

Vocabulary Quiz: Audience Analysis and Adaptation

(1)

Web Explorations

(1)

Public Speaking Exercises

(1)

Analyzing Your Public Speaking Class

(1)

Analyzing an Unknown Audience

(1)

Predicting Listeners' Attitudes

(1)

Analyzing a Speech

(4)

Using Supporting Materials and Presentation Aids

(32)

Supporting Materials

(7)

Examples

(3)

Narration

102

(1)

Testimony

103

(1)

Statistics

104

(2)

Presentation Aids

106

(24)

Types of Presentation Aids

108

(3)

The Media of Presentation Aids

111

(2)

Preparing Presentation Aids

113

(2)

Using Presentation Aids

115

(1)

Computer-Assisted Presentations

116

(7)

Summary of Concepts and Skills

123

(1)

Vocabulary Quiz: Supporting Materials and Presentation Aids

124

(1)

Web Explorations

125

(1)

Public Speaking Exercises

125

(1)

Amplifying Statements

125

(1)

Critically Evaluating Testimony

125

(1)

Analyzing Presentation Aids

125

(1)

Analyzing a Speech

125

(5)

Organizing Your Speech

130

(41)

The Body of the Speech

131

(14)

Select and Word Your Main Points

131

(2)

Organize Your Main Points

133

(12)

Introductions, Conclusions, and Transitions

145

(8)

Introductions

145

(3)

Conclusions

148

(4)

Transitions

152

(1)

Outlining the Speech

153

(18)

Constructing the Outline

154

(2)

Sample Outlines

156

(7)

A Brief Note on Organization and Flexibility

163

(1)

Summary of Concepts and Skills

164

(1)

Vocabulary Quiz: Organizing the Speech

165

(1)

Web Explorations

166

(1)

Public Speaking Exercises

166

(1)

Generating Main Points

166

(1)

Constructing Introductions and Conclusions

166

(1)

Analyzing a Speech

167

(4)

Wording Your Speech

171

(26)

How Language Works

172

(7)

Language Varies in Directness

172

(1)

Language Varies in Abstraction

172

(1)

Language Varies in Objectivity

173

(1)

Language Varies in Orality

174

(1)

Language Varies in Accuracy

174

(5)

Choosing Words

179

(11)

Clarity

179

(3)

Vividness

182

(2)

Appropriateness

184

(5)

Personal Style

189

(1)

Phrasing Sentences

190

(7)

Summary of Concepts and Skills

191

(1)

Vocabulary Quiz: Public Speaking Style

192

(1)

Web Explorations

192

(1)

Public Speaking Exercises

193

(1)

Making Concepts Specific

193

(1)

Talking about Cultural Identities

193

(1)

Analyzing a Speech

193

(4)

Delivering Your Speech

197

(19)

Methods of Delivery

198

(2)

Speaking Impromptu

198

(1)

Speaking from Manuscript

198

(1)

Speaking from Memory

199

(1)

Speaking Extemporaneously

199

(1)

Effective Vocal Delivery

200

(6)

Volume

200

(1)

Rate

201

(1)

Pitch

202

(1)

Articulation and Pronunciation

202

(2)

Pauses

204

(2)

Effective Bodily Action

206

(6)

Eye Contact

206

(1)

Facial Expression

207

(1)

Posture

207

(1)

Gestures

207

(1)

Movement

207

(1)

Proxemics

208

(1)

Using Notes

208

(4)

Rehearsal: Practicing and Improving Delivery

212

(4)

Research the Speech as a Whole

212

(1)

Time the Speech

212

(1)

Approximate the Actual Speech Situation

212

(1)

Incorporate Changes and Delivery Notes

212

(1)

Rehearse Often

213

(1)

Summary of Concepts and Skills

213

(1)

Vocabulary Quiz: Public Speaking Delivery

214

(1)

Web Explorations

214

(1)

Public Speaking Exercises

215

(1)

Developing the Impromptu Speech

215

(1)

Communicating Vocally but Nonverbally

215

(1)

Informing Your Audience

216

(22)

Guidelines for Informative Speaking

217

(4)

Limit the Amount of Information

217

(1)

Adjust the Level of Complexity

217

(1)

Stress Relevance and Usefulness

218

(1)

Relate New Information to Old

218

(1)

Vary the Levels of Abstraction

219

(1)

Make Your Speech Easy to Remember

220

(1)

Informative Speeches of Description

221

(3)

Strategies for Describing

221

(3)

Developing the Speech of Description

224

(1)

Informative Speeches of Definition

224

(6)

Strategies for Defining

226

(3)

Developing the Speech of Definition

229

(1)

Informative Speeches of Demonstration

230

(8)

Strategies for Demonstrating

231

(1)

Developing the Speech of Demonstration

232

(1)

Summary of Concepts and Skills

233

(1)

Vocabulary Quiz: The Informative Speech

233

(1)

Web Explorations

234

(1)

Public Speaking Exercises

234

(1)

Defining Terms

234

(1)

A Two-Minute Informative Speech

234

(1)

Analyzing a Speech

234

(4)

Persuading Your Audience

238

(33)

Goals of Persuasion

239

(1)

Guidelines for Persuasive Speaking

240

(16)

Anticipate Selective Exposure

240

(1)

Ask for Reasonable Amounts of Change

241

(1)

Identify with Your Audience

242

(1)

Use Logical Appeals

243

(2)

Use Emotional Appeals

245

(6)

Use Credibility Appeals

251

(4)

Motivate Your Listeners

255

(1)

Persuasive Speeches on Questions of Fact

256

(2)

Thesis

256

(1)

Main Points

256

(1)

Support

257

(1)

Developing Speeches on Questions of Fact

257

(1)

Persuasive Speeches on Questions of Value

258

(3)

Thesis

259

(1)

Main Points

259

(1)

Support

259

(1)

Developing Speeches on Questions of Value

260

(1)

Persuasive Speeches on Questions of Policy

261

(10)

Thesis

261

(1)

Main Points

261

(1)

Support

262

(1)

Developing Speeches on Questions of Policy

262

(1)

Organizational Examples

263

(2)

Summary of Concepts and Skills

265

(1)

Vocabulary Quiz: The Persuasive Speech

266

(1)

Web Explorations

266

(1)

Public Speaking Exercises

267

(1)

Developing Persuasive Strategies

267

(1)

Analyzing a Speech

267

(4)

Speaking on Special Occasions

271

(20)

The Speech of Introduction

272

(1)

The Speech of Presentation or Acceptance

273

(3)

The Speech to Secure Goodwill

276

(3)

The Speech of Dedication

279

(1)

The Commencement Speech

280

(1)

The Eulogy

281

(3)

The Farewell Speech

284

(1)

The Toast

285

(1)

The Special Occasion Speech in Cultural Perspective

286

(5)

Summary of Concepts and Skills

288

(1)

Vocabulary Quiz: The Special Occasion Speech

289

(1)

Web Explorations

289

(1)

Public Speaking Exercises

290

(1)

Developing the Speech of Introduction

290

(1)

Developing the Speech of Presentation/Acceptance

290

(1)

Developing the Speech to Secure Goodwill

290

(1)

Speaking in Small Groups

291

(21)

Small Groups

292

(1)

Culture, Gender, and the Small Group

292

(1)

Problem Solving in Groups

293

(6)

The Nominal Group

294

(1)

The Delphi Group

295

(1)

The Quality Circle Group

296

(1)

The Idea-Generation Group

297

(1)

The Focus Group

298

(1)

Members and Leaders in Small Groups

299

(5)

Members in Small Groups

299

(2)

Leaders in Small Groups

301

(3)

Presenting the Group's Thinking

304

(8)

General Speaking Guidelines

304

(2)

Speaking in the Panel Group

306

(1)

Speaking in the Symposium and Team Presentations

306

(1)

The Symposium-Forum Presentation

307

(1)

Oral and Written Reports

307

(1)

Summary of Concepts and Skills

308

(1)

Vocabulary Quiz: Speaking in Small Groups

309

(1)

Web Explorations

310

(1)

Public Speaking Exercises

310

(1)

Solving Problems in Groups

310

(1)

Responding to Individual Roles

311

(1)

Combating Groupthink

311

(1)

References

312

(2)

Index

314

(6)

Credits

320

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