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Introduction to
Persuasive Speaking
Part 10:
Using Visual Aids
John E. Clayton
Nanjing University, Spring, 2005
Syllabus
02/28 Introduction;
03/07
03/14 Speech 1
03/21
03/28 Movie: Remember the Titans
04/04 Overcoming Fear
04/11 Speech 2
04/18 Make-up speeches; Review speech 2
04/25 Using an outline; Selecting a topic
05/02 Holiday
05/09 Using visual aids; Topic outline card
05/16 Speech 3 (topic your choice, Visual aid, Outline card)
(NOTE: Please DO NOT use PowerPoint)
05/23 Review of Speech 3
06/30 Review of all speech principles; Prep for speech 4
06/06 Speech 4 (no make-ups – all due this day)
06/09 Speech contest and party (evening, 6:00 – 8:00pm)
The Role of Presentation Aids
Presentation Aids
• Can be audio or visual
• Help the audience
- see relationships
- remember material
• Should be used to supplement,
rather than serve as your ideas
Memory & Presentation Aids
Percent of Speech Remembered After…
90%
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%
3 Hours
3 Days
30%
20%
10%
0%
Verbal
Only
Visual
Only
Verbal
&
Visual
When to Use?
The first step is to establish the
need for an aid.
Once your speech is complete,
read through to identify places
where an aid would
clarify your ideas.
Timing
Display your aid only when
you
are about to discuss it
Otherwise, the audience my
become distracted if they see
something they do not
understand
Simplicity is Important
Concentrate on
presenting one major
idea per aid.
Place Aids Carefully
Make certain that the audience
can see and hear your aids,
and
that you can access them
easily without interrupting
the flow of your speech
What Aids Should You Use?
The selection and use of
particular types of
presentation aids should
be based on the speech
content, the audience, and
the occasion.
Basic Guidelines for Aids
• Make it easy to see
• Keep it simple
• Make it consistent with objective
• Maintain eye contact
• Talk about visual aid
Additional Considerations
• Don’t pass items around
• Use nothing dangerous or illegal
• Avoid using live animals
• Prepare for problems (have
backups)
Types of Visual Aids
• Slides
• Posters
• Objects
• Models
• Handouts
Types of Visual Aids, cont.
• Flip charts
• Chalkboards
• Audio/video clips
• Overhead transparencies
• Projected computer graphics
Design Rules - Size
Make sure type
size is large
enough for the
audience you
will address
72 PT
60 PT
44 PT
36 PT
Make sure type size is large
enough for the audience
you will address
32 PT
28 PT
24 PT
18 PT
14 PT
A Picture is Worth 1,000 Words
“Hanging from a small pin
pounded into the mountain
surface can be an exciting,
if dangerous, activity.”
A Picture is Worth 1,000 Words
Chalkboard
Use for simple explanations
Remember -- the processes of
writing or drawing reduce
contact between the
presenter and the audience
Practice With the Aid
Practice the presentation as it
will actually be performed
Plan on what to say during “dead
time,” such as time spent
walking over to an overhead
Gettysburg Address
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation,
conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so
conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war.
We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here
gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should
do this.
But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this
ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above
our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we
say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be
dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly
advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave
the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not
have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that
government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
Gettysburg Address
Abraham Lincoln
Delivered 19
November 1863,
Gettysburg
Battlefield
Topic Outline Card
A. Introduction – we need better laws regarding alcohol.
1. Bob’s death
2. Latest statistics on youth deaths.
3. Question: why must this continue?
B. Need – It can happen to anyone.
1. Story of Jane’s crippling accident.
2.
C. Satisfaction --
Homework
Finish preparing speech 3,
th
to be presented on May 16
1. Argumentative topic of your choice
2. 3 minutes
MEASURED ON:
- Impactful introduction
- Effective use of a visual aid
- Use of a topic outline card