COMS 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Rhetorical Question
10 Jan 2017
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Beginning and Ending the Speech
● The Introduction
○ Get the attention and interest of your audience
■ Relate the topic to the audience
● Use a story, put it in their prospective, use vivid language
■ State the importance of your topic
● Why is it important?
■ Startle the audience
● Put problems at a personal level
■ Arouse the curiosity of the audience
● State a series of statements progressively to make the audience
curious about your topic
■ Question the audience
● Rhetorical question
■ Begin with a quotation
● Famous or personal
■ Tell a story
● Provocative, dramatic, suspenseful
○ Reveal the topic of your speech
■ Make it clear
○ Establish your credibility and goodwill
■ Credibility-the audience's perception of whether a speaker is qualified to
speak on a given topic
■ Goodwill-the audience’s perception of whether the speaker has the best
interests of the audience in mind
○ Preview the body of the speech
■ Preview statement-a statement in the introduction of a speech that
identifies the main points to be discuss in the body
● Tips for the introduction
○ Keep it relatively brief
○ Be creative
○ Don’t worry about exact wording of your intro until you’ve finished the body
○ Work out your intro in detail
○ Wait until the audience has settled down to begin
● The Conclusion
○ Signal the end of the speech
■ “In conclusion”, “My purpose has been”, “Let me end by saying”; in tone
of voice, pacing, intonation, and rhythm; build vocal pitch, choice of
words, dramatic content, gestures, pauses-and possibly loudness
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Document Summary
State a series of statements progressively to make the audience. Arouse the curiosity of the audience curious about your topic. Get the attention and interest of your audience. Use a story, put it in their prospective, use vivid language. Credibility-the audience"s perception of whether a speaker is qualified to speak on a given topic. Goodwill-the audience"s perception of whether the speaker has the best interests of the audience in mind. Preview statement-a statement in the introduction of a speech that identifies the main points to be discuss in the body. Don"t worry about exact wording of your intro until you"ve finished the body. Wait until the audience has settled down to begin. In conclusion , my purpose has been , let me end by saying ; in tone of voice, pacing, intonation, and rhythm; build vocal pitch, choice of words, dramatic content, gestures, pauses-and possibly loudness.
