Speech Structure: Polishing the Conclusion

The rules of a conclusion are:

1. Effective summary of the major points of the speech. 
2. Inspiring solution or action step.

• Decorate these two with your final appeal that challenges, inspires, or motivates your audience to consider the significance of your topic. 
• Make sure your tone corresponds with the entire speech. 
• It is also a good idea to get back to the introduction and make so called “full circle”. That always gives unity to the speech. 

I'm to write a conclusion to the speech "How to Communicate Effectively"

In conclusion, communication is essential because it brings changes in our lives: with both speaking and listening, we change the world. That is why be aware you are a good listener – and, at the same time, do not hesitate to speak if you are afraid of being misunderstood and be unheard. Only then, you’ll find the real self and understand the world around you.

Speech Structure: Building the Body

The task is to write the outline for one of the performances. I’ve chosen the 1^st speech that is by Grift_the_power_of_passion_and_perseverance  by Angela Lee Duckworth.  

Purpose Statement: The purpose of this speech is to inform the audience of the positive effect of grit

Introduction:

1. In education the one thing we know how to  measure best is IQ

2.  Your life depends not only on your ability to learn quickly and easily

3. Motivation and psychological perspectives matter in education

Body

1.The main thing in education that helps to succeed  

A. Physiological research in schools and private companies in order to understand what is the important in one’s education

B.  Grit as a significant predictor of success

a    a) Grit is a passion and perseverance  for long-term goals

b) Grit is living life like it’s a marathon, not a sprint 

C. Grit Questionnaires in school

a).  grittier kids were significant more likely to graduate

2. How little science knows about building the grit

A. talent doesn’t play an important role in making student grittier

3. Growth mindset as a way of building the grit

A. The ability to learn can be changed with one’s effort

B. The students have to believe that failure is not a permanent condition

Conclusion

We need our to be gritty about our kids getting grittier

The creative method of thinking and the ideas for the speech

Hello, dear readers!

To come up with the ideas for the persuasive speech, I’ve chosen the method of random words to help me. I’ve found ten words in the dictionary and five words gave me some ideas.

Firstly, “stress” is a common thing when you want to succeed in something and you have to work very hard. Maybe, it will be a good idea to describe the ways of coping with pressure. Also, as my topic is connected with determination, it’d be interesting to compare the results of those who managed to straddle over some difficulties with those who couldn’t resist the stress and gave up.

Secondly, I united two words that are “enemy” and “erase” because only by killing your “enemies” (laziness, fears, lack of confidence, etc.) you’ll get the result. Then, some techniques how to push oneself and start working should be mentioned in the speech.

Third, because of hard work we expand our skills and learn different information, change our inner worlds and broaden our minds (grow as a person) and it can be shown through the personal example.

Writing an introduction

My task is to write an introduction for my persuasive speech using one of the main attention-getters. The topic of the speech is "Hardwork is not an enemy, but it's your friend".

Hardwork. What do you feel when hear this word? Does it sound unpleasant or uncomfortable for you?

I believe, many of you, sitting here today, have the same problem – we are afraid of hard work. We don’t like it. Any time we hear the sentence “you have to write a speech, do several tasks and then post them in your blogs till Monday”, we want just throw up our hands helplessly and say to ourselves “Oh…it’s starting again”.

What is our biggest problem? Is it a time pressure and great difficulties? Unbearable demands of work? Or is it something else?

Today I’d like to speak about hardwork, namely, how we see it, how we should see it and what we should do to start working hard.

Researching (steps)

I'm to write a research plan to make my future speech more convincing. Here are 5 main steps I've chosen:

1.  Study the newspapers and watch news programs daily to get useful information.

2.  Visit library in search of some articles and books of famous people who gain their popularity through hardwork. Read books about success and ways of making yourself work.

3.  Have a talk with parents and ask them whether their friends/ former fellow students succeed in life by working hard.

4.  Ask the history teacher about a famous historic person.

5.  Watch several biographical films about the life&work of famous businessmen/politicians/scientists   

I hope, all of this will be helpful resources. My favourite step is to ask parents about their friends because it's closer to life and then it proves that everyone can archive their life goals.

Challenge 4

I’m president of the united states and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli!

-George H W Bush

To overcome stage fright, I have to do the 4^th challenge that is to sing in front of someone indoors.

First off, I should mention I can’t sing. I sing very badly and then I’m afraid of performing in front of the audience. So, I wasn’t quite sure to the last whether it should have been performed or not because it’s quite specific.

Well, my friend and I went to the recreation park that is not far from our place. As different public events are held on holidays, there’s a stage there. I felt quite uncomfortable when I was going upstairs on the stage as if I had to give a live concert performance all the night long, but the audience wasn’t so huge to call it a concert, only three or five people passing by. Then, I pressed the button “play” and the melody started playing. I felt short of breath and my face got red. People were staring at me, and that moment I felt really uncomfortable, but I ignored my feelings and started sinning. 

When the song was to be sung at last, and I still was unwell – my legs were wobbling with a silly smile on my face. It was terrifying just to stand alone in front of some strangers and sing ( a great mixture of embracement and adrenaline). But in the end I was happy that everything ended.    

Though it’s a great experience, I’m sorry but I’m not going to experience it once again!

Speech Structure: Mastering the Introduction

Good evening! I'm glad to see you there again!

Today we’re studying how to make the introduction more effective. My task is to watch five public speakers perform and understand what attention-getters are used in each speech and then evaluate the transition between the attention-getter and the thesis.

I.  Attention-getters:

Speech 1: Asking a question (How are we, “homo sapience” doing as a species?)

Speech 2: Acting as an illustration of the speech (= Life will sometimes feel like a fight) + questions (Can you think of a time when life tried to knock you down?)

Speech 3: Telling a story + the quotation (George Washington Cavers says all learning is understanding relationships)

Speech 4:  Questions (How do you explain when things don’t go as we assume? How do you explain when other are able to achieve things that seem to defy all of the assumptions?)

Speech 5: Making a reference (I feel there is uncomfortable tension in the room…I shouldn’t have worn this dress) + asking the question (So, why did I do that?)

II. The thesis statements and evaluation of the transition:

1.  “Outbreaks of nature don’t end well”. I’d give 2 pts for the transition. I liked the transition between the 1^st question to the statement because it was logic and laconic but at the same time the introduction seems quite long and “heavy”. I think the reason of this is that the speaker used too much scientific terms.

2.  “Our most challenging opponent is ourselves”. I’d give 3 pts to this speaker. The attention-getter was impressive because you can’t get tired of somebody who performs on stage.  The transition was simple but relevant – the speaker asked the question and the answered it with the statement thesis.

3.  I liked the way the speaker used the quotation and made it a statement thesis(George Washington Cavers says all learning is understanding relationships). The transition is not evident but it’s a laconic one – I believe, it’s the strongest introduction from all the speeches. Without a doubt, the speaker scores 3 pts.

4.  Asking a number of questions is always a winner as you involve the listeners in your speech and make them think, too. The transition is done well, in the logic of the speech. Then, I’d give him 3 pts.

5.   "Image is powerful but also, image is superficial". Personally, I don’t like the transition of the last speech. I’m afraid, the actions (and some sentences, too) were distractive and confusing, and some of them were not to the point. Because of this, is seems that the statement thesis I separated from the whole text. I’d give 1 pt.


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