Public Speaking

Objectives:
• To identify a general purpose for a speech.
• To learn to choose an engaging and relevant topic.
• To recognize the importance of brainstorming to generate ideas.
• To understand how to narrow a topic.
• To understand how to determine a specific speech purpose.
• To compose effective thesis statements in support of the speech’s central idea.

Assignment 5 – Developing your speech

After reading chapters 4 and 5 in your textbook make a list of 10 speech topics you find interesting. Choose five topics from your list and generate both a specific purpose and a general purpose that could be used in a speech.  Next, describe how you would tailor each speech topic to the following audience’s or groups.

1.  College Students

2.  A retirement Center

3.  A group of middle school kids

Helpful Resources:

http://webpage.pace.edu/bmorris/will/ssp.html

http://www.hawaii.edu/mauispeech/html/your_purpose.html

http://www.hawaii.edu/mauispeech/html/your_purpose.html

part 2

discussion post for this week

Ursula is developing a speech on the importance of organ donation. She has found lots of impressive statistics in her research but feels she needs an interesting story to really make an impression on her audience and persuade them to become organ donors. Ursula can’t find a true story she really likes, so she takes elements of several stories and pieces them together into a single story. Her speech is a huge success and six of her classmates sign up to be organ donors immediately after her presentation. How do we decide whether Ursula’s behavior is ethical?

Discuss your ideas here.