SPC1608 Chapter 7: Developing Your Speech

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Consider the audience
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When you discover the listener's needs, interests, and expectations prior to selecting a topic, you are fulfilling which guideline for selecting a topic
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concern about the interests and knowledge of her audience
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Emily has been asked to speak to a group of her colleagues at work about a new project, but she wonders, "What do these people already know about this project, and are they excited about it?" These questions reflect Emily's
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Brainstorming
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When you make a list of your own interests, and just begin writing as many topics related to these as you can think of without stopping to consider them, you are using a technique known as...
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Yes; scanning newspaper headlines may be an effective strategy to find a speech topic
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It's the end of the semester, your brain is fried, and you just can't come up with a creative topic for your persuasive speech. As a last resort, you pick up the daily newspaper and decide on a topic by looking at one of the headlines. Is this advisable?
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General Purpose
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Almost all speeches have an overall goal to inform, to persuade, or to entertain. This goal for your speech is known as its
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Specific Purpose Statement
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At the end of my speech, my audience will be able to list the three different types of Reggae music." This statement is an example of a...
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Thesis Statement
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In his speech outline, Barnett included the sentence: "Censorship of the music industry violates our First Amendment right to free speech." This statement is
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Main Ideas
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Searching for logical divisions in a subject is a strategy for determining your
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Establish reasons why your central idea is true
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The central idea for your speech on "use sunscreen" just will not break itself down into logical divisions. Rather than trying to find another topic that divides more logically, you would
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True
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A Specific Purpose Statement is always worded as a behavioral objective.