Hello, Public Speakers! Here are the guidelines for the Speech or Demonstration:

Hello, Public Speakers!
Here are the guidelines for the Speech or Demonstration:
English 115: Public Speaking
Speech 3: Demonstration
Length: 10-12 minutes
Purpose: to inform; possibly to persuade or entertain
Research: If sharing historical details and fun facts about the topic, verbal citations are required!
Directions:
The Speech of Demonstration requires you to show the audience how to do something or how something operates.
Topics Considerations: As always, there needs to be a personal connection between you and the topic. While you do not need to be a professional or an expert, select a topic in which you have some skill – even if a developing one! This is usually explained in the introduction and your experiences shared along the way. Connections to family, neighborhood, and culture greatly enhance your credibility!
What you are doing is teaching your audience; to think DIY and how-to! YouTube has no shortage of examples!
Suggested (but not limited to!) Categories:
grooming (hair care/styling, make-up, organic products you can make at home, nails)
fitness/sports cooking meal prep home repair/decorating martial arts/self-defense crafts self-care bicycle/car repair and maintenance activities for children music/ dance fashion/style lesson (language, poetry, spoken word, etc.) game activities while we self-isolate during a pandemic first-aid/safety science experiment cultural topics (fashion, dance, music, ceremony, ritual, recipe) sewing, knitting, crocheting table etiquette (setting a table, ordering in a restaurant, using chopsticks, etc.) saving money.
Topics to avoid: how to play a video game and other topics involving technology that prevent eye contact and actual demonstration but instead rely on software.
Introduction – Remember the three functions:
gain the audience’s attention
establish connections between speaker and topic and audience and topic (This is where you usually establish your credibility. Stories work well here!)
help your audience anticipate the contents of the demonstration by stressing the usefulness and relevance of the topic. (This can be your thesis.)
At the end of your introduction, there should be some statement of thesis that includes the process or procedure about to be demonstrated and its usefulness and relevance.
Examples:
In my speech, I am going to demonstrate how you can get that barbershop look at home.
I am going to demonstrate how to make a nutritious and delicious meal for your family in under 15 minutes.
Repurposing old greeting cards to create new ones is a creative, inexpensive, and green way to show people in our lives that we care.
Today, I am going to show you how to save a life using CPR.
Reminder: Demonstration is primarily an informative speech, so there should be some discussion of the topic’s history, connection to the speaker (family, culture), and fun facts along the way (“Did you know …?) in order to avoid “dead time” where the audience just watches you demonstrate in silence.
Body
This will largely consist of the actual demonstration. The more you show, rather than just explain, the more successful the demonstration will be. A clear explanation and simultaneous demonstration is expected, so provide precise directions. Tips and suggestions (about supplies, ingredients, steps) are important as well as discussion of usefulness and relevance (nutrition facts, saving money, being resourceful for instance). A temporal organization of ideas is typical for this speech.
Remember to use transitions of time such as first, second, third, etc., after, before, next, meanwhile, last, finally. I highly recommend the use of an internal preview (to preview materials, stages, and final result) and summary (to remind the audience of previous steps)!
Conclusion
Repeat steps and remind listeners of the usefulness and relevance of the topic. Strive to have a clincher or memorable closing statement as a take-away for your audience (If stumped, how about a thoughtful quotation?). In order to provide cohesion, return to your attention-getter or another detail from your introduction. View your speech as a journey in which you return to where you started; the speech is an exploration of the topic.
Delivery
NOTE: You are expected to be present for all or most of the presentation. Any voiceover (in consolidating or accompanying steps) must be kept to a minimum.
Movement: You are not confined to a small space, but are encouraged to move around but make sure your audience is able to see you at all times. All materials and steps need to be visible to the entire audience.
Gestures should illustrate your ideas.
Eye contact should be maintained as you demonstrate.
Avoid “dead time” by speaking and moving throughout the demonstration. Personal details and fun facts (“Did you know ….) are effective ways to fill the time.
Presentation aids are expected. These may include using yourself and/or members of your family and household, tools, supplies, materials, a final result, and slides.
Samples are attached.