Objectives: After studying this page you should be able to do the following:
1. Describe how to integrate supporting material into a speech.
2. Integrate your own research and supporting material into your speech.
Integrating Supporting Material into a Speech
Once you have organized your main ideas and subpoints, you are ready to flesh out the speech with your supporting material. If you have entered your supporting material into a word-processing file, you many want to print out a hard copy of this file so you can have it in front of you while you work on your speech plan. When you determine where in the speech you need supporting material, find what you need on the hard copy and then go back into the word-processing file to cut and paste the supporting material electronically into your speech plan.
If you have written or pasted supporting material on note cards, write each main idea and subpoint on a separate note card of the same size as the ones on which you record your supporting material. Arrange these note cards in the order in which you have organized your speech. Then to through your supporting material note cards, one by one, and decide where in the speech you will use each one. The headings you wrote on the top of each card should help in this process. Place each supporting-material card behind the appropriate main-idea or subpoint card. You now have a complete plan for your speech on note cards.
If most of your supporting material is photocopied or electronic, search these documents for what you need and then write or type the supporting material into your speech plan. Regardless of which strategy you use to integrate your supporting material, take care not to lose track of the source of the supporting material.
Once your supporting material is logically placed into your plan, your next goal is to incorporate it smoothly into your speech so as not to interrupt the flow of ideas. Notice how skillfully this goal is met by a speaker delivering a speech on the inherent dangers of discarded computer components
Your listeners may not remember many specific facts and statistics after a speech, but they should remember the important points. Connecting ideas and supporting material make it more likely that they will do so.
If you have written or pasted supporting material on note cards, write each main idea and subpoint on a separate note card of the same size as the ones on which you record your supporting material. Arrange these note cards in the order in which you have organized your speech. Then to through your supporting material note cards, one by one, and decide where in the speech you will use each one. The headings you wrote on the top of each card should help in this process. Place each supporting-material card behind the appropriate main-idea or subpoint card. You now have a complete plan for your speech on note cards.
If most of your supporting material is photocopied or electronic, search these documents for what you need and then write or type the supporting material into your speech plan. Regardless of which strategy you use to integrate your supporting material, take care not to lose track of the source of the supporting material.
Once your supporting material is logically placed into your plan, your next goal is to incorporate it smoothly into your speech so as not to interrupt the flow of ideas. Notice how skillfully this goal is met by a speaker delivering a speech on the inherent dangers of discarded computer components
Your listeners may not remember many specific facts and statistics after a speech, but they should remember the important points. Connecting ideas and supporting material make it more likely that they will do so.