Developing Your Presentation

1. Developing Your Presentation HCOM 100 Instructor Name

2. Preview:Developing your speech • An overview of the Public-Speaking Process • Understanding Speaker Anxiety • Managing Speaker Anxiety • Selecting and Narrowing Your Topic • Identifying Your Purpose • Developing Your Central Idea • Generating Main Ideas • Gathering Supporting Materials

3. An Overview ofPublic Speaking • The Public-Speaking Process • Select and narrow topic • Identify your purpose • Develop central idea • Generate main ideas • Gather supporting material • Organize Presentation • Rehearse Presentation • Deliver Presentation

4. Overview of Presentational Speaking • Audience-centered presentational speakers are inherently sensitive to the diversity of their audience.

5. UnderstandingSpeaker Anxiety • Speaker anxiety results from your brain signaling to your body to help with a challenging task. • Blood flow • Breathing rate • Adrenaline • Most speakers feel more nervous than they look.

6. Managing Speaker Anxiety • Know how to Prepare a Presentation • Be Prepared • Focus on your Audience • Focus on your message • Think Positively • Use deep-breathing Techniques • Take Advantage of Opportunities to Speak • Seek Professional Help

7. Selecting & Narrowing Your Topic • Who is the audience? • What is the occasion? • What are my interests and experiences? • Silent brainstorming • Scanning web directories and web pages • Listening and Reading for Topic Ideas

8. Identifying your Purpose • General Purpose • Inform, persuade, entertain • Specific Purpose • Concise statement of what your listeners should know or be able to do, i.e.: • At the end of my presentation, the audience will be able to explain the causes and most successful treatments for anorexia & bulimia. • At the end of my presentation, the audience will try Zen meditation.

9. Developing Your Central Idea • The central idea specifies the topic of the speech and makes some definitive statement about it. • Criteria for Central Ideas: • Audience-centered • Single topic • Complete declarative sentence • Specific language

10. Generating Main Ideas • Use the central Idea to Generate Main Ideas • Does the central idea have logical division? • Can you think of several reasons the central idea is true? • Can you support the central idea with a series of steps of chronological sequence?

11. Gathering Supporting Material • Supporting Material Can be Verbal and Visual • Verbal • Illustrations, explanations, descriptions, definitions, statistics, etc. • Visual • Objects, charts, graphs, posters, maps, models, videos (no more than a 1-minute clip per speech) etc. • Audio • Music, CD-ROM, DVD

12. Sources of supporting Material • You and People you know • Internet • Criteria for Evaluating Internet Sources • Accountability • Accuracy • Objectivity • Date • Usability • Library

13. Sources of Supporting Material • Books • Periodicals • Newspapers • Reference Resources • Government Documents • Special Services

14. Types of Supporting Materials • Illustrations • Hypothetical illustrations • Descriptions and Explanations • Definitions • Classification • Operational definitions

15. Types of Supporting Material • Illustrations • Descriptions & Explanations • Definitions • Analogies • Literal analogy • Figurative analogy • Statistics • Oral citations • Opinions • Expert testimony, lay testimony, literary quotations • Acknowledgement of supporting material

16. What questions do you have? • Homework: • Reading? • Turn in assignments?