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- Determine Your Purpose • Determine whether your general purpose is to
inform, to persuade, or to entertain.
• Decide on your specific purpose—what you want
your audience to be able to do when you finish
your speech.
Chapter 7: Developing Your Speech
Chapter 15: Speaking to Inform
Chapter 16: Understanding Principles of
Persuasive Speaking
Chapter 17: Using Persuasive Strategies
Chapter 18: Speaking for Special
Occasions and Purposes- Develop Your Central Idea Develop a one-sentence summary of your speech. Chapter 7: Developing Your Speech
- Generate Your Main Ideas Identify your major ideas by determining whether your
central idea has logical divisions, reasons why it is
true, or steps.
Chapter 7: Developing Your Speech- Gather Supporting
Material
Conduct research to identify useful and interesting
stories, descriptions, definitions, statistics, analogies,
and opinions that support your major ideas.Chapter 8: Gathering and Using
Supporting Material- Organize Your Speech • Develop your introduction, body, and conclusion.
• Use signposts and transitions to clarify your
organization.
Chapter 9: Organizing and Outlining Your
Speech
Chapter 10: Introducing Your Speech
Chapter 11: Concluding Your Speech- Rehearse Your Speech • Prepare your speaking notes, and practice using
them well in advance of your speaking date.
• Practice your speech out loud, standing as you
would stand while delivering your speech.
• Develop appropriate and useful presentation aids.
Chapter 12: Using Words Well
Chapter 13: Delivering Your Speech
Chapter 14: Designing and Using
Presentation Aids- Deliver Your Speech • Adjust your message to the audience if necessary.
• Maintain good eye contact.
• Use appropriate gestures and posture.
• Use appropriate vocal volume and variation.
Chapter 13: Delivering Your SpeechcInDerella
by Grace Hildenbrand
SaMPle SPeecH
The speaker has analyzed her
audience and knows that most
of them are from the United
States.This speaker’s general purpose
is to inform the audience about
the two most well-known
versions of the Cinderella story.after giving a verbal signal to
mark the transition to the body
of her speech, the speaker
states her central idea.There are thought to be over five hundred different versions of Cinderella,
making it one of the most popular fairy tales in the world. In the United
States, most children have seen Disney’s Cinderella and adults are either
familiar with this movie or they know other versions of the Cinderella fairy
tale. I know that I watched Disney’s version of Cinderella many times as a
kid. And then when I got to college, I took a German class and I learned
about the Brothers Grimm version of Cinderella. I was surprised to find
that it was actually quite different from Disney’s version of Cinderella. In
the Brothers Grimm there are two brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm,
who compiled different fairy tales into books back in the 1800s and one of
these fairy tales was Cinderella. Disney did change aspects of the Brothers
Grimm version of Cinderella to make it more appropriate for children. The
differences in these two versions are revealed in the characters, in the
royal ball scene, and in the use of violence.
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