Discuss with classmates or write your answers to these questions
as you study this section.Chapter 9 Organizing and Outlining Your Speech
- Define primacy, recency, and complexity in your own words, and give a new example of a
central idea for a speech that would use each order. - The principles of primacy and recency are referred to several times in this chapter. If a
statistic offers overwhelming evidence of the severity of a given problem, is it ethical
for a speaker to save that statistic for last, or should the speaker reveal immediately to
the audience how severe the problem is? In other words, is there an ethical distinction
between primacy and recency?
Chapter 10 Introducing Your Speech
- Describe, in just a few of your own words, each of the ten methods of introduction
described in this chapter. - What is the best speech introduction you have ever heard? Using the principles
discussed in this chapter, analyze why the introduction was so good.
Chapter 11 Concluding Your Speech
- What are two major tasks of summarizing your speech in a conclusion and how can you
accomplish those tasks? What are two goals of providing closure in the conclusion and
how can you achieve those goals? - What is the best speech conclusion you have ever heard? How did it achieve the
purposes of a conclusion that are discussed in this chapter?
Chapter 12 Using Words Well: Speaker Language and Style
- List and explain four ways to use words effectively.
- List, in your own words, three ways to adapt your language style to a diverse audience.
- A high school principal asked a student graduation speaker to avoid using the word
rape in her graduation speech. The student, who had been raped as a 14-year-old
sophomore, argued that she wanted to use the concrete word to help emphasize to her
classmates that they could overcome even the most devastating experiences in life. The
principal countered that he was suggesting ways to make the language of the speech
more appropriate to the occasion and the audience.^34 What is your opinion on this issue?
What would you advise the speaker to do?
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