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Introduction to Public Speaking

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University of Washington

Introduction to Public Speaking

485 classificações

Curso 1 de 4 em Specialization Dynamic Public Speaking

This course gives you a reliable model for preparing and delivering effective presentations. In business, in school, and in public life, we are often called upon to “make a few comments.” Often, people tasked with such speeches become flummoxed. They might not know what to talk about, or ramble without making a point, or simply be confusing to listen to. This course is designed to help you shine where others falter. We’ll learn how organize talks clearly, write them memorably, and deliver them confidently. By the end of the course, you should be able to significantly reduce your fear of public speaking, use rehearsal techniques to develop a strong, vibrant speaking voice, and perform speeches with dynamic movement and gestures. The speech model that we’ll practice is useful for briefings, elevator talks, interviews, and even as a structure for hour-long presentations. If you’re a beginner, this course will help you quickly master the fundamentals of speaking. If you’re a seasoned speaker, this course will help you better understand public speaking and push you to the next level.

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Week 3: Illustrating and delivering your ideas

This week, we’ll talk about support and arrangement. The lessons here will immediately help all of your other presentations. Why? Because we need to think about how audiences hear our ideas in real time. There are things we should be doing to help listeners instantly organize and process the information we’re presenting to them. By the end of the week, you should be able to discuss evidence clearly and highlight your speech's organization. If you want some feedback, you’ll be able to upload a practice elevator speech for peer review.

Highlighting speech structure3:04

Introductions4:59

Transitions3:17

Conclusions3:02

Key point speech with structure identified (Optional)7:08

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Dr. Matt McGarrity
Principal Lecturer
UW Department of Communication

I'm here on the University of Washington campus.

Now I can't tell, I don't imagine how would be able to know this,

but classes started yesterday.

So if you're walking around on this main area,

the quad, you'll see a lot of new students here very lost.

Because this campus is a new place to them, and

they don't quite know how to laid out yet.

American campus are weird in the sense that they're big sprolling places and

it's kind of sometimes to navigate your way.

But if you're going to do well, if you're going to make it on class on time,

you need to understand the campus, and that's why you need a map.

See maps are great, right?

Why?

Because maps orient you to a new space.

They help you figure out where you are.

Where am I?

I'm right here.

Thank you, map.

And they allow you to figure out where you are and where you're going.

So now why talk about this?

Well, because in your speech, your speech is a new campus to your audience,

they don't know it's orientation,

they don't know the logic of how you've laid out the key points.

So you need to provide that audience with a map of your talk,

now how do we do this in a speech?

Well, we can provide previews in the introduction that let

the audience know where we're going.

We can highlight the transitions between the main ideas in our speech.

And provide reviews in the conclusion.

It's there to help orient your audience to that new space in real time.

Now this type of arrangement talk,

when I introduce it some people are very resistant to it.

And I think they're resistant for usually three reasons and

I want to speak to those.

The first is they feel it's too blunt saying I'm going to talk about

three things.

And I'll admit sometimes arrangement talk can be rather blunt.

But I'd rather have a clear speech that had some blunt language,

than an unclear speech absent of that arrangement talk.

Second, I think people don't want to give something away.

They're worried that if they tell us what the speech is about,

it'll lose all it's mystery.

Well, speech is not a mystery novel,

we shouldn't only know what it's about when you get to the end.

You don't want your audience at the end of the speech to be like, he's a geologist,

he was talking about geology, I did not get that at all.

So you don't want that type of surprise ending, and

I'd say finally people misunderstand different speech genres so

they look at previewing in a speech and they say,

well that doesn't work in speeches, but different speeches do different things.

So a key point speech needs to be clear so it's benefits from previews, reviews, and

transition.

A wedding toast, it just needs to demonstrate emotion, right?

It would be weird if you're like, Karen and

Tracy should have a wonderful marriage for three key reasons.

To begin with, that's not the appropriate genre for that type of arrangement talk.

I will conclude by saying this is sort of like muscle memory.

You develop a sensibility for

being able to highlight the orientation, the organization of your speech.

But if you can do that it's going to make many of your key point speeches or

informative speeches, better because you can quickly orient your audience to

the topic just like a good map.

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