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Intros & Conclusions

This document provides guidance on effective introductions and conclusions for speeches. It recommends that introductions should plan to engage the audience, establish credibility and common ground, and preview the structure of the speech. Conclusions should logically summarize the main ideas and restate the thesis, while also providing psychological closure and ending strongly. Both introductions and conclusions should be concise but achieve their goals.

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Intros & Conclusions

This document provides guidance on effective introductions and conclusions for speeches. It recommends that introductions should plan to engage the audience, establish credibility and common ground, and preview the structure of the speech. Conclusions should logically summarize the main ideas and restate the thesis, while also providing psychological closure and ending strongly. Both introductions and conclusions should be concise but achieve their goals.

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Introductions and

Conclusions
Introductions

• Plan them explicitly


• Engage your audience’s attention
• Provide a psychological orientation –
establish a relationship with your audience
- Establish credibility
- Establish common ground
- Possibly refer to the setting and occasion,
acknowledging the audience’s reasons for attending
Introductions

• Provide a logical orientation – lay the


groundwork for what they should expect
- Establish a context for the speech
- Preview the structure of your speech
• Keep it concise: 10-20% of speech time
• Some typical techniques?
- Shocking statement
- Series of intriguing statistics
- Rhetorical questions
- Quotation
- Narrative/anecdote
- Joke
Conclusions
• Provide logical closure
- Summarize main ideas, restate thesis
- Re-establish context
• Provide psychological closure – how do you
want your audience to come away feeling?
- Remind them of relevance, how it affects their lives
- Make an appeal (esp. in persuasive speech)
• End with a clincher - strong, concise final
lines; possibly return to intro technique
• Avoid pitfalls: trailing off, apologizing,
being overlong, introducing a new idea

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