Speech

This is the foundation of your speech which consists of three to four main points which are arranged in order.

• opening

• outline

• support

These are facts anecdotes, explanations, and stories to your main points.

• opening

• outline

• support

This may be humorous, surprising, informative, or challenging.

• opening

• outline

• support

You will conduct this with people who are knowledgeable of your topic.

• quizzes

• additional research

• surveys

As a speaker, you have to know the interests, attitudes, goals, and fears of your _____.

• advisors

• audience

• colleagues

Before delivering your speech, you need to ____ about everything you are going to say in front of other people,

• plan and rehearse

• voice record

• video record

For a short speech, have something physical to show the audience--a couple of photos, a prop, anything that gives the audience's eyes something to focus on.

• Show. Don't tell.

• Make it personal

• Use milestones

Don't be afraid to allow emotion to enter into your voice if appropriate.

• Show. Don't tell.

• Make it personal

• Use milestones

For a five-minute speech, you want to organize in roughly one-minute intervals, and you want to offer checkpoints to the audience at the top of each minute.

• Show. Don't tell.

• Make it personal

• Use milestones

Instead of trying to make the time fit the speech, however, recognize that you have to make your remarks fit the time allotted.

• Strip it down.

• Remember the exact verbatim.

• Add irrelevant details