Structuring Speech & Beginning and Ending your speech

An effective conclusion restates the topic, restates the key ideas, activates an audience response, and provides closure.

Restating the key ideas is simply repeating keywords.

When providing closure, your goal is to make the audience know when the speech is finished without needing to explicitly tell them.

You should develop the elements of a speech in the same order that you will deliver them.

Based on ABCD model, the best way is to follow the structure based on the model

In the ABCD model, benefits provided should be audience-centered. 

There are THREE ways to show your credibility based on ABCD model.

Your introduction creates an important first impression; your conclusion leaves an equally important final impression.

The main purpose of a speech introduction is to get attention, whether favorable or unfavorable.

A conclusion is a speaker’s first chance to review his or her main ideas for the audience.

You can help establish listening motivation by showing the members of your audience how the topic affects them directly.

One way to build credibility in the introduction is to be prepared and appear confident.

An initial preview statement is an organizational strategy called a signpost.

You should not restate your main ideas in your speech conclusion because it makes the speech too repetitive.

A rhetorical question is intended to provoke thought, rather than elicit an answer.