expertise

Examples of expertise in the following topics:

• Your Areas of Expertise

  • When selecting a topic consider areas in which you have expertise.
  • Expertise is when someone has a wealth of knowledge in a particular field.
  • Your area of expertise might be a good topic to give a speech about because you already possess a familiarity with it.
  • Instead, research will mostly be aimed at refining your expertise, enriching it, and ensuring that you are familiar with the conversation around that topic.
  • Considering your own areas of expertise can be a way of generating a speech topic.

• Defining Credibility

  • Audiences will trust you more readily if you can prove that other people value your expertise.
  • It combines believability, trustworthiness, expertise, experience, and ethics.

• Expert vs. Peer Testimony

  • Peer testimony, unlike expert testimony, is given by a person who does not have expertise in the subject in question.
  • A person who provides peer testimony might not have expertise in a particular area, but he or she likely has personal experience with the issue at hand.

• Choosing the Main Points

  • The needs, interests, and expertise of the audience should be the central consideration in choosing main points.
  • A homogeneous audience is a group of people who share a consistent level of interest and expertise in your topic.
  • A heterogeneous audience includes people with different levels of expertise and interest in your topic.

• Building Credibility

  • The building blocks of credibility are: character, trustworthiness, experience, expertise, and associations/connections.

• Brainstorming

  • You have considered your areas of expertise.

• Types and Elements of Credibility

  • You can do this by citing testimonials from respected figures or mentioning personal recommendations that validate your expertise.

• Using Different Kinds of Appeals

• Tailor Complexity to Your Audience

  • This audience, even if they have taken biology classes, will not possess the same expertise knowledge that professionals do.

• The Importance of Gathering Information

  • Personal expertise is a great source of anecdotes, illustrations, and insights about important issues and questions related to your topic.
  • Make sure your speech is relevant to your audience: take the time to build on your area of expertise by gathering specialized information to fit the occasion.