This slide deck gives you a brief overview of the key ideas in the field of Communications generally and Presentational Speaking more specifically.

1. Introduction to Presentational
Speaking

2. Why Does This Class Matter?

3. Why Does This Class Matter?

4. Why Does This Class Matter?

5. Four categories of human communication:

6. All communication involves the
following elements:
– Source
– Receiver
– Message
– Channel
– Shared meaning
– Context, goals, outcome

8. Communication Process Defined:
• Source (sender): person who creates message
– Speaker transforms ideas and thoughts into
messages and sends them to receiver, or
audience
– Encoding: process of organizing message,
choosing words and sentence structure, and
verbalizing message

9. Communication Process Defined:
• Receiver (audience): recipient (individual or
group) of source’s message
– Decoding: process of interpreting message
– Audience members decode meaning of
message selectively, based on individual
experiences and attitudes
– Audience conveys feedback: response to
message, verbal and non-verbal

10. Communication Process Defined:
• Message: content of communication process—
thoughts and ideas put into meaningful
expressions
– Can be expressed both verbally (through
sentences and points of speech) and
nonverbally (through eye contact and
gestures)

11. Communication Process Defined:
• Channel: medium through which speaker sends
message
– E.g., sound waves, air waves, electronic
transmission
• Noise: anything that interferes with
communication process between speaker and
audience so that message cannot be
understood

12. Communication Process Defined:
• Shared meaning: mutual understanding of
message between speaker and audience
– Lowest level of shared meaning exists when
speaker has merely caught audience’s
attention
– Higher degree of shared meaning is possible
as message develops

13. Communication Process Defined:
• Context: anything that influences speaker, audience,
occasion, and speech
– E.g., recent surrounding events, physical setting,
order and timing of speeches, and cultural
orientation of audience members
– Consideration of audience, occasion, and overall
speech situation when planning speech
– Audience-centered approach: each phase of
speech preparation process is geared toward
communicating meaningful message to audience