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The greatest start to the best speech is a good topic. The topic needs to be modern, up to date, interesting and fun. All of this is depending on your audience as well, so you wouldn’t want to give a speech on the first phones invented to fifth graders. The topic should appeal to the audience, and since most of my speeches will be done in my communication class my audience will be current college students just like myself. This makes it a little easier preparing a speech because I am a college student as well, so I have a bit of an idea of what may or may not appeal to my audience. There are many things that I need to consider before giving a speech, things like, how to be fully prepared with my information, how to not bore my audience to death, …show more content…

And being a college student myself I know how easy it is to lose attention on something. So I need to make sure during my speech to make it interesting and bring a visual aide because I know that, that may help me share my information better with students who learn better with visual aids as well as I do. As stated in our Frealeigh and Tuman textbook “If you want audience members to actively listen to your speech and ignore everything else going on you must motivate them to focus on what you’re saying. By selection supporting materials that appeal to your listeners interest, you sweeten the odds that they will pay attention to you.” So with this I feel that by getting something that most of my classmates or audience can connect with, will make them feel the need to pay attention to what I’m saying and actually have their full attention the entire time.

I feel like also learning what my classmate’s interests are may help me grab and keep their attention longer. Learning how to connect my topic to things they may like, for instance sports, famous people, or politics may help me peek their interest and keep their mind on me and what I am saying rather than looking around or look at their

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