COMM 001 Lecture 10: Comm 1 (Public Speaking) - Lec 10

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Communication (COMM)
• Course: COMM 001
• Professor: Jones

Document Summary

Audience will decide if they are interested in your topic. Arouse your audience"s attention and willingness to listen. Motivate the audience to accept your goals. Make the topic relevant: gain attention: the first step. Quotations, telling a story, posing questions, saying something startling, humor, referring to the occasion, establishing a feeling of common ground with audience. Like to use stories to illustrate points and entertain. Anecdote- brief story of interesting, humorous, or real life incidents. Rhetorical- do not invite actual responses, make the audience think. Make key points and introduce the theme of a speech. Should match the audience, topic, purpose, and occasion, personal style. Audience express interest similar interests and goals. Common ground = respect and build speaker credibility: introduce the purpose and topic. Alert the audience to the speech topic and purpose: preview the main points. Phelps audience mentally organize the speech and helps you, the speaker, keep their attention: motivate the audience to accept your goals.