This document discusses public speaking and its importance. It begins by outlining learning goals around understanding communication, explaining why public speaking is a powerful skill, and identifying the skills needed to compose and deliver a speech. It then discusses peoples' common fears of public speaking and death. The document emphasizes that public speaking skills can be used to unite people and enact change, provides examples of how speeches have impacted the world and individuals' lives, and explains the key components of speeches and adapting them for different audiences. It stresses that public speaking is an important part of democracy by allowing for both unity and pluralism of ideas.

3. Learning Goals:
 Understand the basics of the
communication process
Explain why public speaking is a
powerful and worth mastering
Identify the skills necessary to compose
and deliver a speech
Describe the choices at each stage of the
speech creation process

4. • People’s Biggest Fears:
3. Death
2. Snakes
1. Public Speaking

5. • About 10 percent of the population
loves public speaking.
• •Another 10 percent are genuinely
terrified.
• •The rest of us – roughly the 80 percent
in the middle –get butterflies, get
anxious, don’t sleep much the night
before – but we know that we’re going
to live through it. It’s just not much fun.

6. • Don’t worry, you are in very good
company! Many people – including
celebrities and politicians - admit to
being dead of having to speak in public
and suffer the same symptoms as you
might: tongue-tied, blushing, damp
hands, the shakes!

8. FAQ
Why learn public speaking?
Can speeches really change the
world?
Can speeches really make a
difference in my life?
Can speeches really make a
difference on campus?

9. FAQ
WHY LEARN
PUBLIC
SPEAKING?

10. Speech is / can
used to unite people
around a common
democratic goal
- a powerful
weapon
- change your world
in big and small
ways

11. Rhetoric . . .
- term from ancient Greek for the
study of how words can persuade
an audience.
“Let’s have less
rhetoric and more
action.”

12. FAQ
Can speeches really
change the world?

13. The Power of Public Speaking to
Change the World
• Need the power of words to speak a better
existence.
• Speak with clarity and conviction and need
to listen and be attentive to other people’s
viewpoints.
• Speech should not only motivate us to
make a community but speak in a way that
generates cooperation and insight and that
avoids division and narrow-mindedness.

14. FAQ
Can speeches really make a
difference in my life?

15. Can speeches really make a
difference in my life?
• The speech you give as an answer to the job
interview question, “Tell us a little bit about
yourself”
• The speech you give when you pitch an
important business idea
• The speech you give when you are trying to
persuade people in your community to
change something in your community that
needs changing.

16. Can speeches really make a
difference in my life?
• The speech you give when you are convincing
a loved one to do something – enter a long-
term relationship, or to support you in an
important endeavor.
• The speeches you give to convince others to
vote for a candidate or a law that afftects
your everyday life.

17. FAQ
Can speeches really make a
difference on campus?

18. Can speeches really make a difference
on campus?
• Your ability to be clear and persuasive with
your peers could change the quality of
campus life for a huge number of students
“YOUR SPEECH IS WHAT MAKES YOUR
BELIEFS MATTER”

19. Speaking Connects You to Others:
Democracy in Everyday Life
• A good public speech, no matter what the
context, ultimately strives towards the best
ideals of democracy.
DEMOCRACY – a system of government where
people govern themselves, either through
direct votes on policy issues or by electing
officials who deliberate and make decisions on
their behalf.

20. #ESSENCE OF DEMOCRACY
E pluribus unum
“From many, one”
The many people who
make up the United
States are all united –

21. FAQ
What do pluralism and unity
mean for public speaking?

22. P L U R A L I S M

23. P L U R A L I S M
- means that our democracy is made up
of people who are different – different
backgrounds ( class, race, gender,
sexuality, religious orientation, and
geographical origins).
- It is more than just our different
backgrounds. There is also different in
democracy because we have different
ideas and beliefs.

24. U N I T Y

25. U N I T Y
UNITY means the
differences are not
disabling:
We are all members of
the same national public

26. PUBLIC SPEAKING is about:
Unity of democracy
- respecting common
commitment
Pluralism of democracy
- preserves the important
differences that make each of
us who we are.

27. ADVERTISING
vs
DEMOCRATIC
CONVERSATION

29. Three (3) components:
1.a speaker
2.a listener
3.some means
of getting the
information
between them

30. Rhetorical Situations
Make a list of the most common rhetorical
situations you engage in:
Who are the most common listeners?
Why?
Are these situations usually face-to-face
or electronic? Why?
Which ones are the easiest? Most
difficult? Why?

31. THE PUBLIC IN PUBLIC SPEAKING

32. ADAPTATION – adjusting a
topic, arguments, and
presentation to fit a particular
audience.
PUBLIC – a group of people
who share a common set of
concerns.

33. Figure 1.1
Public
(Taxpayers)
Public
(Parents)
Specific
Audience
(PTA meeting)
Speaker

34. Figure 1.2
Public
(Taxpayers)
Public
(Parents)
Specific
Audience
(PTA
meeting)
Speaker

35. Informative speech – to educate the
audience about the topic.
Persuasive speech – to change the
audience’s opinion about a topic or to
encourage them to take a particular
action.
Special-occasion speech – made on the
Occasion of a life transition ( such as
wedding) or a professional event (such as
introducing a speaker).

36. S P E A K I N G is
about making choices

37. Choices– in public
speaking, these are about the
topic, information, and
arguments, organization, visual
aids and other supporting
materials, and type of DELIVERY (
act of making a speech to an
audience).

38. 5 Parts of the Speaking Process

39. P R E P A R A T I O N
means planning the best way to
present your message so that the
audience will respond favorably:
audience’s interest, expectations
and predispositions

40. P R E P A R A T I O N
How will you prepare your speech?
What do you want to say?
What information and arguments will you
use to support your claims?
How will you organize the speech and move
from point to point?
What words, images, or technology will be
important to creating compelling
experience for the audience?

41. P E R F O R M A N C E
Performance or delivery is the part
of the process you think first.
How will you deliver or “perform”
your speech?
What tone, pace, and gestures will
you use?