textual cue

Examples of textual cue in the following topics:

• Highlighting the Main Points

  • If you want your audience to follow your main points, you should highlight them using visual and textual cues.
  • Public speakers can highlight important points using visual cues and textual cues.
  • Visual cues are cues the audience can see, including aids such as slides, handouts, and charts, and also the speaker's body language.
  • Textual cues relate to the content of the speech: signal words and phrases, examples, anecdotes, and selections of text that appear on a slide or handout.
  • Public speakers can use visual aids and textual cues to highlight their main points.

• Feedback: Visual and Verbal Cues

  • Your audience can provide you with immediate feedback; pay attention to the visual and verbal cues they give you in the moment.
  • Typically though, you can gauge feedback as your speech is happening by paying very close attention to the visual and verbal cues your audience may be giving you while you speak.
  • Verbal and visual cues refer to those sounds and reactions you may hear and see made by your audience.
  • Visual cues can also include making eye contact.
  • You audience may give you visual, non-verbal cues that signal how they may be receiving your message.

• Read Feedback Cues

  • Feedback is a cue to the speaker to modify or regulate what is being said.
  • When you are in front of the audience, non-verbal behavior can be an important cue to what the audience understands, the level of attentiveness, excitement or agreement, or confusion or disagreement.
  • If you maintain eye contact with your audience while speaking, you can observe the cues and adapt your message.

• Interaction in Public Speaking

  • Your non-verbal interaction with your audience consists largely of body-language cues.
  • Your audience will use your non-verbal cues to more fully comprehend your message and will often connect with or disengage from your message based on those cues.

• Static Representations: Images, Drawings, and Graphs

  • Physical cues such as images can help to reinforce a speaker's message.
  • Audiences partially rely on vision to receive a speaker's message, using physical cues, signs, typography, drawing, graphic design, illustration, color, and electronic resources.

• Analogies

  • Linguistically, an analogy can be a spoken or textual comparison between two words (or sets of words) to highlight some form of semantic similarity between them.

• Building a Speech: Starting with an Outline

  • Some speakers like to use handwritten notes, others use cue-cards, still others read from a printed script, and some experienced speakers don't use any prompts at all.
  • However, minimal prompts such as cue cards and outline-style notes may help you stay on topic and remember main points.

• Components of a Speech: Main Points, Introduction, Conclusion, and Transitions

  • On a written page, formatting provides a helpful road map: the reader sees topic headings, paragraph breaks, and other visual cues that signal transitions naturally.
  • Speakers can replicate these cues and signal transitions using visual aids and body language, but it will take more conscious effort than simply hitting "enter" to create a paragraph break.

• Improve Listener Engagement, Comprehension, and Memory

  • Similarly, a visual aid will act as a cue for the audience to remember a story or concept that the speaker is explaining.
  • The visual cue will more easily remind the audience of the concept than a simple explanation in words.

• Pitch

  • Textual: information not in the sentence is signaled by the absence of a statement-ending decline in pitch, as in "The lecture was canceled" (high pitch on both syllables of "cancelled", indicating continuation); versus "The lecture was can↘celed. " (high pitch on first syllable of "canceled", but declining pitch on the second syllable, indicating the end of the first thought).