A6310 Section B 蔡依璇 Speech Plan No.3

Topic: Will newspapers disappear?

Audience Adaptation Plan

I. Audience analysis
My audience is composed of young college students who have been read newspapers and used computers since elementary schools.

II. Background knowledge
My perception is that my audience know newspapers and computers for a long time.

III. Creating and maintaining interest
I will ask my audience who has the habit of reading newspapers everyday. Then, I will make my audience Imagine the pictures on PowerPoint.

IV. Organization
I will follow the motivated sequence: attention, need, satisfaction, visualization, and action.

V. Building credibility
I will establish my credibility by mentioning and citing the origin of resources.

VI. Motivation
I encourage my audience to take a look at newspapers often.

Outline
I. Specific goal
I want my audience to realize that newspapers will disappear in the future.

II. Attention: visualization
A. Ask my audience who has the habit of reading newspapers everyday.
B. Imagine
1. Your grandfather with his glasses ask you to explain what the newspaper says.
2. 50 years later, you are the person who ask your grandchildren what is on the "computer."

III. Need
A. I will ask my audience to think of the role newspapers play in your daily lives.
B. I will arouse the problem of "Who killed the newspaper?"

IV. Satisfaction
A. Internet is the biggest reason why newspaper will disappear one day.
B. The decline reason
1. number of people fallen
2. share price fallen
3. reporters cutting
4. loss of circulation

V. Visualization
Online journalists and bloggers emerge to take traditional newspapers' position.

VI. Action
Newspapers will disappear. it is just a matter of time.

VII. Sources
A. economist's website
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=7830218
B. Scobleizer's website column
http://scobleizer.com/2007/03/24/newspapers-are-dead/
C. Wikipedia
Newspapers and Internet

A6310 Section B 蔡依璇 Speech Plan No.2

Speech Topic: How the Mummy Is Made

I. Adaptation Plan

A. Speaking directly to the audience: I will present my speech in a live talk show program way, speaking to my audience directly with "you" attitude.

B. Building credibility: I will lead my audience into my topic by introducing related information step by step. I will also provide the sources at the bottom of my speech plan.

C. Getting and maintaining interest: I will start my speech as a live talk show. Then I will ask questions to arouse my audience's interests. Moreover, there will be a special guest(on power point) invited to help me.

D. Facilitating understanding: At first I will explain why ancient Egyptians have the mummy custom, then I will introduce the how the mummy is made process. Each step comes with key points on power point.

E. Increasing retention: Use of visual aids can help retention. I will also use metaphors to make sure my audience understand what I say so that they can follow me.

II. Speech Outline

A. Specific Goal: I want my audience to know why and how the mummy is made by giving four steps.

B. Introduction: By making the class in a live talk show atmosphere, I will present the speech vividly and enthusiastically.
1. I will lead my audience into the core of Khufu pyramid.
2. The mummy inside the pyramid is the topic we are going to talk today.

C. Thesis statement: The four steps enable my audience to get more understanding of ancient Egyptian burial custom.

D. Body:
1. First Step: remove the brain
2. Second Step: remove the organs except heart
3. Third Step: dry out with natron(salt)
4. Forth Step: wrap with white linen

E. Conclusion: the process of mummification is to make sure that one can become eternal after death.

F: Sources:
wikipedia online: mummy, canopic jars, ancient Egypt

(revised) A6310 section B 蔡依璇 Speech Plan 1

10/17 Speech Plan

Topic: The Experience of Being a Counselor in My Summer Vacation

I. Audience Adaptation

1. How relevant will the audience find this material to be?
My audience will be interest in how to be a counselor, what happened during the camp, or how to get along with foreign friends. The experience can give my audience the concept of how to treat foreigners.

2. How can I make it easier for audience members to comprehend the information I will share?
I will use 5 wh- questions to help me organize my speech. I will share them with examples while facing different cultures.

3. What common ground do audience members share with each other and with me?
Some of my classmates have gone to place where I went during the camp. It may be another experience for them.

4. What can I do to enhance my credibility?
I will provide examples of how foreign teenagers thought differently from us Taiwanese and how some events influenced me.

5. What is my audience's initial attitude toward my speech topic likely to be?
They may be interested in what a counselor did to guide foreign teenagers on the camp.

6. What language or cultural differences do audience members have with each other and with me?
My audience may have a typical thought about foreign teenagers, who are more independent; however, human nature is the same; I met with many foreigners who are usually out of control.

II. Speech outline

1. Specific Goal
I would like my audience to know the experience of being a counselor and that people coming from different countries can still respect others' culture.

2. Introduction
A. Why this summer vacation's experience meant so special for me.
B. The establishment of the program was to help overseas teenagers develop understanding of Taiwanese culture.

3. Thesis Statement
I lead these kids into the core of Taiwanese culture and that I learned how to respect the cultural differences as well.

4. Body
A. What a counselor's responsibility was.
B. The most valuable things I got was that I learned how to respect the cultural differences; and I will provide 2 examples.
a. Foreign teenagers liked to wear flip-flops.
b. How my member appreciated the temple.

5. Conclusion
Through the experiences of flip-flops and local temple, I realized that cultural communication existed only when one respected each other. And I did have a good time in my summer vacation.

A6310 section B 蔡依璇 Speech Plan 1

10/17 Speech Plan

Topic: My Summer Vacation

I. Audience Adaptation

1. How relevant will the audience find this material to be?
People will recall their own summer vacation.

2. How can I make it easier for audience members to comprehend the information I will share?
I will use 5 wh- to help me organize my speech.

3. What common ground do audience members share with each other and with me?
We are classmates.

4. What can I do to enhance my credibility?
I will provide more examples.

5. What is my audience's initial attitude toward my speech topic likely to be?
They would be interested in what I did during the camp.

6. What language or cultural differences do audience members have with each other and with me?
Though they may hear some of the differences, they are not easily to accept these behaviors at first.

II. Speech outline

1. Specific Goal
I would like my audience to understand that what I did in my summer vacation and what it affected me.

2. Introduction
I would speak to my audience by comparing this summer vacation and before. People would get the idea of why it meant so special for me.

3. Thesis Statement
I would let my audience understand what I did and how it was special by telling how I felt about cultural differences.

4. Body
A. What I did
B. How I felt
C. Cultural differences
a. flip-flops
b. local temple

5. Conclusion
Through the experiences of flip-flops and local temple, I realized that cultural communication existed only when one respected each other. And I did have a good time in my summer vacation.