TOPICS FOR THE FINAL ASSESSMENT ON PUBLIC SPEAKING

1. Introduction to Public Speaking - Why Study Public Speaking - Public Speaking and Conversation - The Communication Process - Improving Your Confidence as Speaker 2. Listening - Stages in Listening - Barriers to Effective Listening - Becoming a Better Listener - Improving Your Note-Taking Skills - Listening and Critical Thinking - Analyzing and Evaluating Speeches 3. Analyzing Your Audience - Becoming an Audience-Centered Speaker - What Is Audience Analysis - Analyzing Your Audience Before You Speak - Adapting to Your Audience as You Speak - Analyzing Your Audience After You Speak 4. Overview of the Speechmaking Process / Developing Your Speech - Select and Narrow Your Topic - Determine Your Purpose - Develop Your Central Idea - Generate, Organize and Subdivide Your Main Ideas - Integrate and Organize Supporting Material - Why Use Visual Aids? / Types of Visual Aids 5. Gathering Supporting Material / Supporting Your Speech - Personal Knowledge and Experience - The Internet - Library Resources - Interviews - Resources From Special-Interest Groups and Organizations - Research Strategies - Illustrations / Descriptions and Explanations - Definitions / Analogies - Statistics / Opinions - Selecting the Best Supporting Material

6. Outlining Your Speech / Introducing and Concluding Your Speech / Delivering Your Speech - Preparation and Delivery Outline - Purposes of and Effective Introductions - Purposes of and Effective Conclusions - Inspirational Appeals or Challenge - Rehearsing Your Speech - Importance, Methods and Characteristics of Effective Delivery - Audience Diversity and Delivery 7. Using Words Well: Speaker Language and Style - Oral Versus Written Language Style - Using Words Effectively - Crafting Memorable Word Structures - Tips for Using Language Effectively - Speaking Freely / Speaking Ethically 8. Speaking to Inform - Goals of Informative Speaking - Types of Informative Speeches - Strategies for Informing Your Listener 9. Principles and Strategies of Persuasive Speaking - What Is Persuasion? - Motivating Listeners - Developing Your Persuasive Speech - Putting Persuasive Principles into Practice - Establishing Credibility - Using Logic and Evidence to Persuade - Using Emotion to Persuade - Strategies for Adapting Ideas to People and People to Ideas - Strategies for Organizing Persuasive Messages 10. Special Occasion-Speaking - Public Speaking in the Workplace - Ceremonial speaking - Types: o speeches of praise and blame (simple forms of praise / blame); o speeches of response and farewell / speeches of celebration / factual explanation / goodwill speeches / inspirational speeches / entertaining speeches