week3

Speeches.

Chapter 9 of the Kent book was about Speeches and Professional Presentations. The chapter talks about the different features of the speech, creating outlines, how to support your speech, and different professional presentation types.

One of the important parts of giving a speech or a professional presentation is getting people to agree with you and change their attitude or take action. The Monroe's Motivated Sequence by Professor Alan Monroe of Purdue University developed this as a guideline to help people present a speech to get people to take action.

The five steps he presents are the attention step which introduces the need of the speech, the next step is the need step which explains what the problem is, then comes the satisfaction step which explains the problem and what needs to be done to fix it, then comes the visualization step which is what the speaker does to help the audience visualize what is in the future if action is/isn't taken, finally there comes the action step where the speaker provides the audience with what they need to do to take action.

Here is a YouTube clip of 40 inspiration speeches in 40 minutes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6wRkzCW5qI

All of these speeches are inspirational because the speaker makes dramatic statements, illustrates what is to happen, and motivates the audience to get pumped up to take action (mostly against the enemy they are fighting against).