The Better Speaker Series Workshop along with my achievement of Competent Communication Award

1. CC Project Completion Record
Sung-Jin, Kim
VP Public Relations
SU Toast Toastmasters Club

2. • Project #4 (how to say it), “Time for a Coffee?” 04/15/2009
• Project #3 (get to the point),“A Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank”04/22/2009
• Project #2 (organize your speech), “Swine Flu” 04/29/2009
• Project #1 (the Ice Breaker), “Interesting Aspects of My Life” 05/06/2009
• Project #5 (your body speaks), “A Journey for a Life Time” 10/05/2009
• Project #6 (vocal variety), “The Black Cat” 10/26/2009
• Project #9 (persuade with power), “Textes: Is this something we
should avoid?” 11/09/2009
• Project #7 (research your topic), “Targeting Memory” 12/07/2009
• Project #10 (inspire your audience), “Be Bio-Inspired!” 04/07/2010
• Project #8 (get comfortable with visual aids), “Get in the Cloud!” 08/04/2010

3. “Time for a Coffee?”
• Objectives (5 to 7 min)
– Select the right words and sentence structure to
communicate your ideas clearly, accurately and
vividly.
– Use rhetorical devices to enhance and emphasize
ideas.
– Eliminate jargon and unnecessary words
– Use correct grammar.

4. How to say it
• Main point
– Caffeine enhances your performance.
• Structure
– Conventional belief vs. two (+) and one (-)
• How little is caffeine needed to get (+) effects?
• How little is caffeine needed to get a (-) effect?
• Conclusion
– Care to drink a cup of coffee before a workout or
race?
• Source
– The Post-Standard, Tue. April 7, 2009

5. “A Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank”
• Objectives (5 to 7 min)
– Select a speech topic and determine its general
and specific purposes.
– Organize the speech in a manner that best
achieves those purposes.
– Ensure the beginning, body and conclusion
reinforce the purposes.
– Project sincerity and conviction and control any
nervousness you may feel.
– Strive not to use notes.

6. Get to the point
• Main point
– The holocaust is not just statistics, but an event that happens to real people.
• Structure
– Introductory remark with Anne’s Diary quote
– Why is that a particular reading of Anne Frank’s Diary conveys the lessons about
holocaust?
– Historical facts about holocaust & Snapshot in the Frank family’s hiding
– The implication of the Anne Frank’s Diary
• Conclusion
– Stories of holocaust literature reveal basic truths about human nature, and
provide adolescent readers with credible models of heroism and dignity.
– “I hope Anne’s Diary will have an effect on the rest of your life so that insofar
as it is possible in your own circumstances, you will work for unity and peace.”
• Source
– My watching the Diary of Anne Frank presented by Syracuse Stage
– The Post-Standard, April 2, 2009
– Internet websites

7. “Swine Flu”
• Objectives (5 to 7 min)
– Select an appropriate outline which allows
listeners to easily follow and understand your
speech.
– Make your message clear, with supporting
material directly contributing to that message.
– Use appropriate transitions when moving from
one idea from another.
– Create a strong opening and conclusion.

8. Organize your speech
• Main point
– We should know about Swine Flu.
• Structure
– What is Swine Flu? Is this new?
– How do we become infected?
– How serious is the swine flu infection?
– Can it be treated?
– Its symptoms in humans?
– What can we do to protect ourselves?
– Can we get sick from eating pork and pork products?
• Conclusion
– Keep it cool while being mindful of current flu’s development and
maintain healthful habits.
• Source
– National Public Radio station
– www.npr.org

9. “Interesting Aspects of My Life”
• Objectives (4 to 6 min)
– To begin speaking before an audience.
– To discover speaking skills you already have and
skills that need some attention.

10. The Ice Breaker
• Main point
– “Everything that’s coming into my life I am attracting into my
life.”
• Structure
– I am attracting this tennis racket to me!
– I am attracting this bible to me!
• Conclusion
– “No matter whom I thought I was, now I know the truth of
who I really am.”
• Source
– The book, “Law of Attraction”

11. “A Journey for a Life Time”
• Objectives (5 to 7 min)
– Use stance, movement, gestures, facial
expressions and eye contact to express your
message and achieve your speech’s purpose.
– Make your body language smooth and natural.

12. Your body speaks
• Main point
– Sound body, sound mind, and socializing efforts
molded my life.
• Structure
– My physical and emotional journey
• Journey before college
• Journey while I’m in college
• Conclusion
– Through my journey, I became NEW me.
• Source
– Personal story

13. “The Black Cat”
• Objectives (5 to 7 min)
– Use voice volume, pitch, rate and quality to reflect
and add meaning and interest to your message.
– Use pauses to enhance your message.
– Use vocal variety smoothly and naturally.

14. Vocal Variety
• Main point
– You should hear about my ghost story.
• Structure
– Introductory quote from Edgar Allen Poe’s poem, “The Raven”
– Transition by linking Poe’s raven to mine, Black Cat
– Incorporation of my personal story during military service
– Introduction of ONOMATOPOEIA
– Transition to main theme of the meeting, Halloween Day
• Conclusion
– Transition from my Black Cat into Poe’s raven
– Concluding quote from Poe’s poem
• Source
– Website, The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
– Personal story

15. “Textes: Is this something we should avoid?”
• Objectives (5 to 7 min)
– Persuade listeners to adopt your viewpoint or
ideas or to take some action.
– Appeal to the audience’s interests.
– Use logic and emotion to support your position.
– Avoid using notes.

16. Persuade with power
• Main points
– Textes fosters children’s literacy.
– Textes has been already incorporated into earlier generations’ word plays.
– Textes is a fun and creative activity.
• Structure
– Definition of TEXTES
– Textes doesn’t deter children’s ability to read and write; it improves their
literacy.
• Two supporting statements
– The idea of textes is not perhaps new; its imaginative potential has been
almost neglected.
• Two supporting statements
• Conclusion
– My stance: In favor of use of textes
– Reinforcing my viewpoint
• Just the way the slang varies in time after time, textes will also be evolved and be
utilized into our daily life more vividly.
• Source
– David Crystal, “2b or not 2b,” The Guardian, July 5, 2008

17. “Targeting Memory”
• Objectives (5 to 7 min)
– Collect information about your topic from
numerous sources.
– Carefully support your points and opinions with
specific facts, examples and illustrations gathered
through research.

18. Research your topic
• Main point
– We might want to get to know of underlying memory
theories.
• Structure
– Introductory remark in perspective of science of
enhancing memory
– Can certain memories be intentionally targeted and
changed, maybe even eradicated?
– Two examples of the science of forgetting
• Conclusion
– Implication of science of forgetting
• Source
– Emily Singer, “Manipulating Memory,” Technology Review, May-
June, 2009
– Claudia Kalb, “To Pluck a Rooted Sorrow,” Newsweek, April 27, 2009

19. “Be Bio-Inspired!”
• Objectives (8 to 10 min)
– To inspire the audience by appealing to noble
motives and challenging the audience to achieve a
higher level of beliefs or achievement.
– Appeal to the audience’s needs and emotions,
using stories, anecdotes and quotes to add drama.
– Avoid using notes.

20. Inspire your audience
• Main point
– We should care about geckos’ toe pad mechanisms.
• Structure
– Definition of biomimicry
– Coarse-to-fine structure of geckos’ toe pad
– Attaching-and-detaching mechanisms of single hair on toe pad
– Geckos’ tail movement while freefalling
– Real-world application, StickyBot
• Conclusion
– We should learn from geckos and make more efforts to
harness the scientific significance of it.
– Preserve geckos’ habitat.
• Source
– Kellar Autumn, “How Gecko Toes Stick,” American Scientist, March-
April, 2006

21. “Get in the Cloud!”
• Objectives (5 to 7 min)
– Select visual aids that are appropriate for your
message and the audience.
– Use visual aids correctly with ease and confidence.

22. Get comfortable with visual aids
• Main point
– In the form of open club, we can together rebuild clubs’ dwindling or
burgeoning membership with club coaches as quickly and flexibly as we
can.
• Structure
– “The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change
everything or nothing!”
– Challenges among IT managers and Toastmasters
– Solutions to those challenges
• Cloud computing vs. Club Coaches
• NIST definition vs. my definition
– One solution to be transformed into another
– P.R.I. mantra
– Conclusion
• “We are changing our corner of the world, because we are more likely
evolutionists, rather than revolutionists!”
• Source
– Various resources