Traits Of Effective Speaking

Welcome to Speaking 101 What Good Speakers Need to Know By Mrs. Milis http://209.197.86.65/19580222/themes/disney/Fantasmic.mid

Traits of Effective Speaking
Idea Development (explanations, demonstrations, illustrations, clarifications, definitions, elaborations )
Organization (Intro, Body, Conclusion)
Voice (Pitch, Volume, Rate, Stress, Inflection)
Word Choice (emotional appeal- connotation vs. denotation)
Body Language (para-language matches/enhances content and purpose)
Conventions (oral grammar structures must match written grammar structures ARTICULATE)

Know Your Audience
Ask yourself these questions before writing
Who is my audience?
What does my audience know?
What do my audience need to know?

Trying to Make all the Traits Work Together…
Can be a pretty difficult balancing act!
Body Language Word Choice Voice Idea Development Conventions Organization

Know Your Exact Purpose
Ask yourself : What am I trying to accomplish with this speech?
To entertain?
To describe?
To explain?
To define?
To persuade?
To inform?

Your Purpose and Tone Should be Connected!
Tone comes from the words and examples you decide to choose to convey your purpose. In the words of Jennifer St. Julian, “You could change the meaning of an speech with just one word if you do it right.”
Ask yourself :
What do I want my audience to know?
How do I want my audience to feel?
What do I want my audience to do?
Then:
Choose words and examples to carefully achieve these writing objectives

Appropriate and Sufficient Content
Ask yourself:
Are my examples and details suited to this particular purpose and audience? Did I provide enough information?
Do I know enough about my topic?
How can I find out what I don’t know?

What is Quality Public speaking?
Quality Speech is clear and interesting to its particular audience.
Quality Speech successfully achieves its purposes .

Traits Of Effective Speaking

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