A6310 SectionB 49482034 林品侖 SSpeech Plan No.06

A6310
SectionB
49482034
林品侖
Speech Plan No.6
Audience Adaptation

Topic: I am a guy with conflicting personality

1. How relevant will the audience find this material to be?
Because the audiences are all my classmates, and we have been classmates for three years, so the material won't be unfamiliar to the audiences.

2. How can I make it easier for audience members to comprehend the information I will share?
I will use some examples to clarify the information I mentioned in my speech.

3. What common ground do audience members share with each other and with me?
We are in the same university, the same department and the same class. It will make the speech to flow smoothly.

4. What can I do to enhance my credibility?
Providing my personal experiences as examples in order to enhance the credibility of my speech.

5. What is my audience's initial attitude toward my speech topic likely to be?
They will find it clear and straightforward when reading my speech title.

6. What language or cultural differences do audience members have with each other and with me?
I would use English, my second language, to complete the whole speech. I would try to reduce the usage of" Chinglish." Otherwise, I would focus on the articulation of each word, and also I would make efforts on the fluency of the speech.

Speech outline
Specific Goal: I would like my audience to understand that I am a guy who is easily moved but also a guy who has difficulty expressing emotions.

Introduction:

I. Have you ever seen such guy who is easily moved by things happened in life?
II. Generally, men are not allowed to express their true emotions, aren't they?
III. Today, I want to talk about me, a sentimental but speechless guy.
Thesis Statement: I will let my audience understand me by the use of two examples, including the death of my grandmother, and a meaningful activity planned by my senior high school teacher.
Body:

A. I was moved by the sorrowful atmosphere of my grandmother's death, but I revealed just as usual.
1. I saw my mother sobbing on the funeral; I was sad but I didn't know what to say.
2. I was in such a sorrow when watching at my grandmother's face, but I didn't have the feeling to cry out loud.

B. I could understand my mother's consideration when receiving the letter in school, but I find it embarrassed to express my love to my mother when I came home.
1. Firstly I will give a brief introduction to the activity.
2. Then I will talk about the contents of the letter.
3. Third I will describe the interaction between me and my mother after school.

Conclusion:

I. I know it's not healthy to hide my true emotion, but it is the trait that makes me so unique.
II. I will try my best to reach the balance between my two conflicting personalities.

A6310 Section A 49482021 林采萱 Speech Plan No.1

Speech Plan 49482021 林采萱 Section A

Self introduction

Audience Adaptation

1. How relevant will the audience find this material to be?

My audience is my classmates. They may want to know brief introduction of their classmate.

2. How can I make it easier for audience members to comprehend the information I will share?

To make it easier for audience to comprehend, I will choose general things to introduce, such as personality and interests.

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

The audience is almost in the same age and is born in same culture with me, so the basic viewpoint and concept may have no extreme difference.

4. What I can do to enhance my credibility?

Giving a true example in daily life may enhance my credibility.

5. What is my audience's initial attitude toward my speech topic likely to be?

Most of the audience may think self introduction as a common one, but they will know something new about me in the end.

6. What language or culture differences do audience members have with each other and with me?

The introduction is delivered in English, so there may be some problems of understanding and interpreting.

Speech Outline

Speech goal: I would like to make a clearer introduction than the one I made two years ago.

Introduction

I. There are two reasons that I decide to make self introduction speech rather than experience speech.

A. The first reason is that introduction I made two years ago was very vague

B. The second reason is that it has no experiences I can clearly remember.

Body

I. My English name is precious to me because it is one of my favorite teachers named for me thirteen years ago.

II. And then, my personality consists of two different characteristics.

A. I am always the most silent one if the topic is not interesting to me.

B. However, some of my friends said that I am funny.

III.Many people think my interests are totally different from them, but there are still similarities.

A. I still have some interests which are similar to other classmates.

B. The only different is the interest relating to computer.

Conclusion

I. Finally, this introduction is the brightest one in the three versions I thought.

II. Furthermore, it is clearer than the introduction I made before.

III.I am always friendlier than many people think.

A6310 Section A 49482019 Selene Chow 周明慧

National Taipei University

Dept. Foreign Languages and Applied Linguistics

Class: English Speech Section A

No. 49482019

Name: Selene Chow 周明慧

Personal Experience

Speech Plan

Topic: Being Freaky—Thinking Critically

1. 1. How relevant will the audience find this material to be?

According my speech, my audience would likely to think it as relevant. Because we are all college students, thinking critically is an important ability to build us up.

2. 2. How can I make it easier for audience members to comprehend the information I will share?

In order to arousing my audience's attention, my speech is adapted to a more interesting talking way than a moral teaching style. Hope it to achieve a much effective and meaningful speaking to my audience.

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

As a college student, thinking critically is a basic element. Standing on the same ground, as college students, it is obvious to us that we have to think critically.

4. 4. What I can do to enhance my credibility?

Add a true event which has happened before to make my idea and experience more credible.

5. 5. What is my audience's initial attitude toward my speech topic likely to be?

At the beginning, my audience probably feels funny about my topic.

6. 6. What language or culture differences do audience members have with each other and with me?

Using a second language to delivery my speech, I would like to avoid my experience-telling speech from sounding weird because my experience has happened in a Chinese-spoken country, not an English society. Using the proper adjectives and adverbials to describe and to produce my speech can be an essential works.

Speech Outline

Specific goal:

I would like to share with the audience about my experience, in the process of understanding the importance of the personal judgmental and critical thinking.

Introduction:

I. Because of the uninterrupted examinations in our earlier school life, we were accustomed to keep finding the only one answer. However, it seems to be a meaningless behavior in our growing process.

II. Everyone must face such a situation, not knowing what the truth is and which is correct, not knowing how to choose, but we still make our own decisions in the end.

III. However, how can we know our decision is right, is correct, is good for us?

(Till now, I still cannot confidently tell how to estimate my own decisions that I have done in these years.)

Thesis statement:

One of the priceless elements to build up a college student is the ability to have the personal judgmental and critical thinking.

Body:

I. When I was a freshman in elementary school, I had a very "unique" classmate for his particular behavior. There were some very freaky ideas exited in his head, our teacher never accepted and understood.

II. (One day, we had a simple mathematic quiz.)

A. An example: the simple arithmetic quiz

1. the question on the paper and his answer

2. his argument with our teacher

3. his nickname

B. His lasted shocking news

(This person or, I have to say this news effects me a lot, even though I do not check it is a credible news or just a made-up message. If this news is true, the freak in Taiwan really becomes a genius in America.)

III. I cannot help but start to ask myself why the freak can be so "successful," and why I am still a student whose biggest goal is to find the correct answer on the exam paper.

A. After few months, I become an undergraduate, some thing happens when I take the first class in my new school.

(I am shocked, for there is no more only-one-and-correct answer in college.)

B. I start to understand and also accept that everyone's creativity is from our unpredictable thoughts and imagination when we are answering the professor's question. When I start to answer professor's question, I know I can do better than before. This explorative thinking is absent before, now I find it and take it back.

(I can be another "freak," for I also have my unpredictable and unexpected answers.)

Conclusion:

Therefore, being freaky from time to time is not really a bad thing. Everyone should try to have you own unpredictable and unexpected answers to anyone's questions.

Sources: my own experience

A6310 Section B 尤雅惠 49482029 Speech Plan No.5

Audience Adaptation Plan Effie 49482029

Topic: I am a book lover.

1. How relevant will the audience find this material to be?

Through the speech, the audience can know more about my reading habits.

How can I demonstrate that the material is timely, proximate, and has personal impact to the members of this audience?

Lots of the audience love to read, and some of them have their own books. Under this situation, everybody might understand the must and mustn't of treating books to show their respect to the books.

2. How can I make it easier for audience members to comprehend the information I will share?

I will carry out some methods of protecting books. Most people know how but sometimes I would still get mad because of the ways they ruin books without noticing. Therefore, I'd like to represent how to help books keep from disasters and damages.

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

It is obvious that the majority of the audience is my age, and from the same culture. I would like to share how I treat my books, and I hope every book they own can live longer. Therefore, I think this topic is quite important for most of us.

4. What I can do to enhance my credibility?

Here I got some information from the Net. Most of them were librarians who provided tips of keeping books from damages. And I found that we applied almost the same principles.

5. What is my audience's initial attitude toward my speech topic likely to be?

Most audience might consider it is a relatively common one, and even ignore it as they know what topic I will put forward. Yet in my speech they would understand that how important it is to extend the life span of books.

6. What language or culture differences do audience members have with each other and with me?

I will speak in English which is our second language, so I would not use too arduous terms to convey my speech. In case there are some words that are hard to comprehend clearly I will explain them in another way again.

Speech--Outline Effie 49482029

Specific goal: I would like the audience to know that I am such a book lover.

Introduction:

I. How many of you love to read?

II. Have you found that some books you borrowed from the libraries were dirty or even broken?

III. Today I want to share my reading habits and the tips of protecting books to you.

Thesis statement: The importance of protecting books and four hints of dealing the books of book lovers will be represented to the audience.

Body

I. Before I had enough money to buy books for myself, I would borrow books from the library of the school. Usually, I found that almost every book was damaged.

A. There were blots of ink, stains of drinks, and even dead bugs on the leaves.

B. The leaves would turn yellow.

C. Sometimes the books smelled bad.

D. The book covers would fall off from the books.

II. After I bought myself books, I became more and more anxious as my books got damaged.

A. Sometimes I folded my loved books accidentally or stained the pages and cover with water.

B. When I retrieved my books from others, my book cover would get some blots.

III. I try to protect my books.

A. I would pay more attention not to damage books.

B. I will warn those who want to borrow my books to be careful about books.

IV. Some hints are given to those who want to preserve their books.

A. Handle books with freshly washed hands.

B. When removing a book from the shelf, do not pull it out by its headcap, which is apt to break.

C. Use only paper bookmarks, rather than metal or leather, which will tear or stain the pages.

D. Avoid eating, drinking, and smoking around books as the spills and stains are generally permanent.

Important Notice

• In all your e-mails to the teachers to their e-mail addresses, be sure to write our course number (A6310) and Section (A or B) in the SUBJECT line. Always include your name and school ID number. Why? The teachers have many classes. They need your specific information to properly sort your mails.
• In all your submissions directly to the class blog, be sure to include your name, school ID number and section in each of the submissions. If it is a speech plan, mark “Speech Plan No. x” as well. Never use an attachment to post to any blog as blogs do not take attachments!

A nice website

i-reading 閱閱欲試
http://www.ireading.cc/person/index.aspx

It is an interesting website.
It encourages people to read a lot.
In it, one can have his/her own website for books, and
share his/her ideas with other people.
I strongly recommand everyone go there and have
his/her own "bookshelf."

Speech Preparation--(Sept. 26 & Oct. 03 2007)

A Few Basic Concepts

• Public speaking is audience centered. (2)
• The public speaking effectiveness process model (3)
• Public speaking skills empower. (6-7)
• Public speaking challenges us to behave ethically. (8-9) (Discuss p.9,29)
• Competence is learned. (10)
• Nervousness is normal, can be even helpful. (14-17) Manage it. (18-20)

An Effective Speech Plan:Six Action Steps (21-26)

• Yes, I do have a message! And I want to share. (finding a topic and setting a specific goal) (44,58-60)
• Understand the audience and plan to adapt (49,54)
• Gather & evaluate information (Chap.6)
• Organize & develop ideas into a well-structured outline (Chaps.7、8)
• Design appropriate aids (Chap. 9)
• PRACTICE the speech wording & delivery! (Chap. 10, 11)

Effective Listening

• Definition (33)
• Why is effective listening important?
• Attending, understanding & retaining, Critically analyzing (34-37)
• Case discussion (37)
• Effective Listening behavior (38)
• Evaluating Speech Effectiveness (38-40)
  

From a Topic to Specific Goal : the narrowing down process

• Subject vs. topic (44-45)
• Know your audience: demographic, knowledge level, interest, attitude
• Know the speech setting: expectation, location, and occasion
• Speech goal: from general to specific.
• Must be crafted carefully as it is the foundation of organizing the speech. (59)

Writing a Specific Goal Statement

• A complete sentence. (59)
• Revise the sentence until it specifies the desired responses.
• Contains only one idea. Describes the precise focus of the speech.

Example:

1. I want my audience to understand the effects of illiteracy.
2. ~ to believe that illiteracy is a major problem.
3. ~ to understand the nature of illiteracy and its effects on the individual and society.
4. ~ to understand the three ways illiteracy hinders a person’s effectiveness in the workplace.
5. Discuss 4.4 (60)

Speech Organization

• Helps attending, understanding & retaining, Critical analysis.
• Has an opening, the body and a conclusion.
• Effective transition
• Has an Opening (introduction), a body and a conclusion.
• Listing sources(144-7)

Introduction, Conclusion & Transition

• Introduction :1) Win audience attention 2) Set the tone, 3) Lead into Content, 4) Establish speaker credibility, 5) Create goodwill. (133-40)
• Types of introduction
• Conclusion (141-6) to review what has been said and to hit home with your point.
• Types of conclusion
• The Body: 2 or 3 main points with supporting details
• Transition (127-8)

Thesis Statement

• Comes after setting goal, gathering information, identifying main points (112-5).
• Is a complete sentence that combines the goal and the main points of the speech.
• Used as a transition into the body of speech.
• Examples (116) and exercises (117~8)

The Speech Outline

• Speech title (147)
• Specific speech goal
• Write the introduction and conclusion
• Thesis statement
• Topic sentence and supports for each main points (124-6) (Action step 4).
• Wording for transitions (127)
• Example(150-1)
• Reflect on Ethics (129)

Practice Delivery

• Prepare well in advance so you have time to practice.
• Four types of delivery: memorized, scripted, extemporaneous, impromptu (200-1)
• Elements of delivery: Voice, articulation, bodily action, (191-6)
• Conversational Style (196-200)
• Rehearsal! (201-6) Practice aloud. Use Notes (not your script on large paper!)
• Reflect on ethics (209)

A Narrative/Personal Experience Speech

• A presentation of your experience and the significance you attach to it.
• Is often emotional.
• Has a climax to which the details build up.
• Is developed with supporting details so the point has a maximum effect.
• The effect is enhanced by using dialogue.Uses clear & vivid language to tell the story.

Introduction of Yourself

• Narrow down the subject: interest, insight, and understanding of you as an individual
• As if you were telling a story to friends
• Create and memorize your opening & closing
• Make a point, say it again in different words, illustrate the point, state it once more.
• Can use note cards if necessary.
• Speak, don’t read!

Speech Plan (for this class)

• Plan for audience adaptation (84)
  
• The complete speech outline
• Source citation, when appropriate.
• Submit to class blog on or before the day of your speech
• Always include your name, ID number and your section

Table Topics

• “Think and Speak” on your feet
• You have little time to prepare for it—Or, Your entire life is a preparation for the moment.
• Impromptu speech
• Focus on the audience!
• Apply Creative & Critical thinking
• Have a Structure: Opening, body, conclusion
• Read widely, learn about current events, and always try to generate a response.