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Benefits of Public
Speaking
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Textbook Benefits
• Improves Listening Skills
• Improves Critical Thinking Skills
• Helps to accomplish professional
goals
• Helps to accomplish personal goals
• Helps to increase civic participation
Similarities and Differences
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Similarities:
Requires speaker to address a group of people who are
focused on the
speaker
Requires speaker to appeal to the audience’s attitudes,
interests, and values
Requires speaker to take responsibility for what they say
Requires speaker to make themselves understood.
Audience will expect the speaker to be knowledgeable
about their topic
Similarities and Differences
 Differences:
Several Factors separate
public speaking from other types of
communication
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Opportunity for feedback
Level of preparation
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Degree of formality
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Vocabulary
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Mass Communication- Occurs between a speaker and a
large number of unknown people. (rallies,
radio broadcasts, etc)
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Small Group Communication-Communication between a
small number of people who can see and
talk to each other. (Usually 3-12)
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Dyadic Communication- communication between two
people as in a conversation
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Public Speaking-Speaker delivers a message with a
specific purpose to an audience who is present
during the delivery of a speech.
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Feedback- listener’s response to the message
Communication Model
 Communication
is- the process of sharing
information through messages.
 Verbal
 Non
– Words that are spoken
Verbal- Body language, facial cues,
hand motions, etc.
Communication Model
Communication Process
 Sender-
person who creates the message
 Receiver-recipient
 Message-contents
of the message
of the communication
process (thoughts and ideas)
Communication Process
 Channel-medium
in which the message is
sent by the speaker
 Feedback-
Verbal and Nonverbal reactions
to a message.
 Shared
Meaning-When the sender and
receiver interpret the message for.
Communication Process
– Finding the meaning of verbal
and nonverbal signals
 Decoding
 Encoding-The
process of turning ideas
and feelings into verbal and nonverbal
symbols.
Types of Speeches
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Expository- To Inform
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Informative- Helps the audience to understand more
about a certain topic.
Process- Helps the audience to learn how to do or
make something.
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Persuasive- To Persuade
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Special Occasion- Various Celebrations and
other social occasions.
Topic Selection
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Choose something you already know a lot
about.
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This should be something that you think the
audience would be interested in hearing.
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Make sure the topic is not too broad. We just
need a few minutes not a complete history.
Informative Speech
 Must
have an organized outline to turn in
on the day of the speech.
 Outline
 Must
 See
must be typed.
speak for 3-5 minutes.
Rubric for further information.