CALS 183 Communication Methods Lecture Nine Outline,Tuesday, 28 October 2008
Question of Culture speech example.
Attendance speech: State your name slowly, Tell us something about one of your grandparents.
ANNOUNCEMENTS & REMINDERS:
Speak Off: Best Choice from each lab will be presented in lecture. Winner gets 100% on the Final Exam, participants get +10% added to their final exam score.
ASSIGNMENTS:
Be sure you know your Speech date and lab role assignment, these have been updated!
What the TAs and I have noticed need
to be improved from observing the presentations and reading reflections:
-OBJECTIVES are how the audience will be changed by your presentation (what they
will DO differently and/or what they will KNOW that they did not before your
presentation).
-CONSTRUCTION method: start with a mind map, re-draft it, then make detailed
outline (can be many pages long), then condense to a one-page
Presentation Outline in big font. Include all
in the Reflection folder.
-Remember in the Intro: WHY you chose your topic, your OBJECTIVES,
CREDIBILITY, and PREVIEW.
-PERSUASIVE presentations should PERSUADE the people in the audience to change
their behavior, they should not be just informational.
-Persuasive presentations should have MENTAL DIALOG (where you anticipate the
audience's thoughts: "Some of you are probably thinking...").
-Work on MORE CREATIVE HOOKS. The show of hands hook is getting old.
-DON'T APOLOGIZE if you mess up. Just keep going and most likely the
audience will not notice or remember.
-PAUSES must be painfully obvious in order to make
an impression on the audience. You want the audience to get uncomfortable
for a few seconds to get their attention.
-RESTATE must knows, should be the bare minimum facts or tasks what you want the audience
to remember and/or do. It is not a summary of what topics you have covered (Categorical).
-Consider PRACTICING IN THE ROOM with some of your lab mates (take turns
practicing and give each other feedback).
-The last thing you say/show/do before the ending "Thank You" should be VERY
MEMORABLE. WORK ON POWERFUL ENDINGS.
Formal Class Introductions (graded, 5%). Don't End with "That's about it", no hats, no gum, hands out of pockets.
Second Half of Beck Weathers's Everest talk.