What type of business presentation should we prepare ahead of time ? - correct answer ✔✔All
presentations require some type of preparation, especially speeches. Organization, key points,
presentation prep and how the speech will be presented all needs to be prepared ahead of time.
Why do we prepare and organize ? - correct answer ✔✔Preparation and organization, when well
developed prior to an oral presentation, significantly contributes to reducing your level of speech
anxiety. You will be more relaxed and be able to give an effective speech.
What are the 5 general purposes for presentations? - correct answer ✔✔Speech to inform, speech to
demonstrate, speech to persuade, speech to entertain and ceremonial speech
What is specific purpose ? - correct answer ✔✔A specific purpose is what you are going to specifically
inform, persuade, demonstrate, or entertain your audience with
What are the 5 speech/presentation planning strategies and how do you use these to identify a topic? -
correct answer ✔✔- Determined the general and specific purpose, can you cove the topic in time, will
your topic be interesting to your audience, how much information about my topic is readily available,
and putting it all together
- All of these things will help to identify a topic because they will help you to plan in a productive way to
help narrow down what your topic will be and help you to find the key points.
Why is it important to know yourself and your audience? - correct answer ✔✔It is important to know
yourself and your audience because you will need to choose a topic that interests yourself and will
interest your audience. Finding a topic that interests you will help you to connect more to the speech
and be able to talk about your topic for longer with more knowledge. Knowing your audience and their
interests will help to keep them interested and more focused on the speech material you are presenting.
How can you save time? - correct answer ✔✔To save time you can consider information close at hand
and that you are interested in or can research. Second you will have to search for the topic so knowing
some information prior will help cut research time down.
, What are the 3 main factors to consider when choosing a topic and how are they helpful? - correct
answer ✔✔appeal, appropriateness, and ability.
appeal - correct answer ✔✔involves the attractive power of arousing a sympathetic, stimulated response
from the audience. This will help your audience stay connected and listen to what you are saying.
appropriateness - correct answer ✔✔involves a topics that is especially suitable or compatible with your
audience's interest, expectations, norms or customs. This is important because depending on your
audience, you will need to have a good understanding of what would be an appropriate topic.
ability - correct answer ✔✔involves the natural aptitude or acquired proficiency to be able to perform.
This is important because it will help the delivery of your speech and help to keep your audience
following along smoothly.
How does your self-inventory help with topic choice? - correct answer ✔✔Self inventory will help with
topic choice because it is related to the things you already know. This can act as a guide to a topic that
will fit your speech and audience.
What is a thesis statement ? - correct answer ✔✔A thesis statement is a short, specific sentence
capturing the central idea of your speech.
How can you narrow the topic and focus on key points and why is this important? - correct answer ✔✔-
To narrow down your topic and find your key points you should determine how specific your topic is. To
do this you can edit your topic and figure out what information can be cut out of your speech and what
is essential information. This will bring you to your key points and reduce the risk of covering too much
information.
- Having key points and narrowing down your topic is important because you must work with a time limit
and not overflow your audience with too much information that they are not able to take in.
What is the best way to prepare your information search ? - correct answer ✔✔To prepare information
searches you should gather information from books, magainzines, newspapers, electronic sources,
interviews etc. To help prepare read a number of sources and consider several sides of an issue. This will
help to determine more specific sides that you could focus on with your key points. You should also
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