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You must explain or demonstrate your concepts, ideas, or events to your audience. This requires a thorough understanding of your topic and audience.
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Use your sources to help organize your thoughts and positions. Do you agree with your sources or disagree?
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Incorporate your audience’s needs into the speech. Consider the following questions when writing and preparing for your audience: Why should we listen? What does the audience already know about the subject? How will this affect them? You should be able to answer these questions somehow through your speech.
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Your audience is your classroom audience, so pay specific attention to what they need and know.
Requirements:
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Choose a subject that is relevant to the needs of the audience and to you.
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Find at least three recent sources within the last two years (i.e., articles, statistics, interviews, published web materials, etc.) Include them in your speech.
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Verbally cite at least three sources.
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Introduction/Conclusion—audience attention, thesis and preview, summary, finality