Public Speaking

Week 6

Informative Speaking
Audience
Information that can be used immediately Event speeches Object speeches Processes

Types
Concept speeches

Information that pertains to them

To be spoken to on their level Creativity Personalization Support

Oral Citations

Statistics
Groups: Reliable source Must represent a trend Use sparingly Use with visual aid Cite source

Meaningful Statistics

Compare Explode Compacting

Comparison Statistic

Example: In 2000, Woodbridge spent $1 million building its schools, while it spent $10 million building new prisons.

Exploding a Statistic

Jim sleeps 8 hours per night. This means that he sleeps 56 hours per week. In effect he sleeps 2712 per year, and if he lives to the ripe old age of 80, he will have slept 215,960 hours of his lifetime hours, 700, 800. That means that Jim spent approximately 30% of his life asleep!

Compacting Statistics

$1 trillion

$100,00 home

All families in Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska & Oklahoma

Using Testimony

YES

NO

Testimony

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Do I use testimony to support my ideas? Do I use testimony from qualified sources? Do I use testimony from unbiased sources? Do I distinguish between expert testimony and peer testimony? Do I identify the sources of all testimony? Do I quote and paraphrase all sources of testimony with complete accuracy?

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Expert: From people recognized in their field

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Use: Expert testimony is even more important when a topic is controversial or when the audience is skeptical about a speaker's point of view
Lay: Ordinary people who have first-hand experience Use: Valuable because it gives a more personal viewpoint on issues than can be gained from expert testimony.

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