Speech Delivery: The Five Stages Of Monroe's Motivated Sequence

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Speech Delivery The delivery of my speech portrays a sense of calmness and seriousness. I used this style of speaking to show the importance of my subject, lack of organ donors. Throughout the presentation I used note cards as a guide and frequently made eye contact with my audience. When giving facts that I felt were important I made sure to look at the camera to show there significance. I also added my input into some of the facts to try and convince my listeners to become organ donors The presentation of this speech improved greatly from my informative speech regarding the benefits of exercise. When presenting my first speech I used no emotion in my voice and read most of it from a script. I also spoke quickly, which made my speech …show more content…

In my speech I fallowed this criteria and made each step clear to my audience. The Monroe’s Motivated Sequence starts at the attention stage also known as the introduction. In my particular speech I directed my audience’s attention toward the topic of organ donors by starting my speech with facts regarding the amount of people that receive an organ transplant each day and also how many people die waiting each day. I started this way because it demonstrated to my audience the seriousness of this topic. After fully introducing the topic I then moved to the body of my speech. There are three stages in the body according Monroe’s Motivated Sequence, the need stage, satisfaction stage, and visualization stage. The need stage consisted of more facts regarding the lack of organ donors. My purpose here was to explain to the audience why they needed to become an organ donor. I stated “there are more than enough people on the waiting list to fill two large football stadiums.” This statement was meant to put the number of people waiting for an organ transplant in perspective for my audience. After finishing the other two stages I moved on to the action stage or conclusion. Now I told them exactly what I wanted them to do, give the greatest gift you can give, become an organ donor. I also restated the website that they could register to become an organ donor, donatelifeflorida.com. My speech fallowed the five steps of Monroe’s Motivated Sequence

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