In Presentations Or Speech Less Really Is More By Stephen Keatue

People need to have a certain type of voice to make a speech effective. To make a speech effective it depends on your tone of voice and how you deliver your speech. If you deliver your speech effectively, it could be memorable and even make a great impact on the world. An example of a speaker that made a great impact on the world is, Martin Luther King Jr, who delivered the famous I Have a Dream speech. Martin Luther King Jr. was a civil rights activist and he wanted to make a change in America. King wanted American’s to treat each other equally and not have discrimination against people depending on what race they were. King’s speech is effective because of the tone and rate he uses, his reasonable arguments, and his use of repetition

When making a good burger, you need to have certain ingredients to make it taste more flavorful. You need to have a good sauce, a well cooked patty, fresh lettuce, and crisp buns. The same thing goes for when you’re writing a speech, you need certain pieces to make the speech effective and full of flavor. In this case, it would be Pathos, Ethos, and Logos, which define as giving emotions, credibility, and logic. Without these specific aspects, great examples like Martin Luther King Jr’s famous, “I Have a Dream” speech wouldn’t be one of the best in history. Certain speeches like Chief Joseph’s, “On Surrender to US Army”, Ben Chifley’s, “The Light on the Hill” speech, and Winston Churchill’s, “Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat” speech have specific strengths but are weak on

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.”-Winston Churchill. Likewise, criticism is the same with speeches. As Andrew Dlugan has stated that one must first understand the objectives, audience, and context to criticize the speech’s effectiveness.

Usually a great speech brings together three aspects- the right speaker, with the right message, at the right time. Sometimes you may be the wrong speaker, or your message isn’t right or even the timing of the speech isn’t perfect. Obama, in the DNC, showed to be

During the speech, I was also a good speaker in many ways. I had a good voice projection, my hand moment was consistent, I was always facing the audience and held eye contact, and had facial expressions to emphasize the importance of a topic. Right off the bat when I was explaining my citation saying According to the U.S Census Bureau “there are alone 5.7% Asian’s in the United States,” I was pointing my hands to make sure everyone was paying attention to the numbers. Another thing I did well during the speech was, that I kept eye contact with everyone during the speech

I gave a speech about making a strawberry-banana smoothie. Overall, I feel as if I did a good job on this speech. It was an informative speech. Therefore, my goal was to teach people how to make a strawberry-banana smoothie. I feel like any person who saw the speech and the related demonstration would have been able to make a strawberry-banana smoothie. In addition, I feel like I kept the speech simple, so that someone could replicate the process at home without having to refer to notes or any written materials. My peer critiques agree with my self-assessment that the speech was good, overall, but highlighted an area for improvement.

I think what I need to improve on is when in fear, try to calm myself down or else I will forget everything I have practice. When speaking, I should work on my articulation and tone. My tone of voice did not have a lot of emotion into it. I seem to have been a little monotone with the way I presented the speech. I had a little rise and fall, but I should work on raising my voice for important points and bring back down to facts and evidence that back up my points.

According to Peter Doolittle's Ted Talk working memory is limited. There is only so much our working memory can take away from the information we learn. This is why it is important for me to construct my speech in such a way that it helps keep my audience engaged and leaves them remembering the topic long after my speech is over. I could do this in a couple different ways. I plan on engaging my audience by sharing a story connected to the topic early on to make it personal to the audience and keep their attention on the topic throughout the speech. Besides telling a story I will arrange my main points into clear patterns that help my audience follow my speech easily. This means I will make sure my main points are easily understood by the audience.

Giving a great speech means that the speaker is not only touching the hearts of other people, but backing up everything said with facts and trustworthiness to make it reliable and persuading. To do this people use various forms of logos, ethos, and pathos. Logos are the facts and proof the speaker is provided for the audience. Ethos is a form of credibility and trust, therefore the speaker must be serious about the topic and sound believable. Lastly there is pathos which is used to show emotion through the speaker and make the audience have sympathy.

After all, who can just sit in front of a speaker and take in all the formal information they are dumping at you at a constant rate. This is why one of the biggest tricks towards making a successful speech is story-telling. Start of your speech by re-telling a personal story that might engage the audience. Make sure that your story involves a lot to which your audience can relate to, as well as, that your story is relevant to your topic, and concise in length. Trust me, this will have a hypnotic effect on your audience, and it will create a trustful atmosphere in the room. If you do not feel like story-telling during your speech, or you simply cannot think of one at the time, then feel free to replace this with humour, and visuals! Humour evokes many emotions from the audience such as joy, surprise, calmness, and even friendship. When humour is added to presentations, the audience is more attentive, responsive, and in turn, your self esteem rises when you realize your audience is having fun. The same goes for using visuals. The audience wants to see the evidence to your conclusions, by witnessing them with their own two eyes. Make sure to have diagrams and illustration during your presentation if necessary. [Wait, does this mean I have to tell my audience a story as well? Is it hypocritical if I do not? Will it add humour and understand if I do? And how do I incorporate a good story with humour for the audience into this? I know it definitely means I need to add more

When I gave my speech, I felt confident. I don't exactly have a fear of public speaking- anyone who knows me could tell you that. I looked out to the entire audience for the entire speech because I didn't use note cards. I also kept my energy up throughout the speech which helped keep the audience focused on the speech. I made some jokes, and the audience laughed at most of them, which was a good feeling. But because I failed to fully memorize the speech, there were times that I was left trying to figure out the exact phrasing, which took away from the performance slightly, even though I don't believe it was that big of a deal. I also made a pun by ending my speech with "My speech is all ogre now" and very few people caught it. This was probably due to my poor

The chapter 4 in the book Well Spoken was a very detailed and thorough part of what to do I in and pause and what to include and what to leave out of a speech. A great example of this is the six questions located on the very first page of the chapter. They are asking very simple yet meaningful things to ask yourself before presenting because if you cannot answer them your audience will surely be lost. The writer then answers and defines each question giving you proper knowledge on how to see your own speech. My favorite example is the connectors even the first sentence is an interesting and good thing to use in your intro it states “Speeches are most effective if the listeners believe the speech was designed specifically for them.” This is something that will greatly improve your speech because you and your audience would listen to you if it was about them or was

When giving a speech it is handy to have a list of key concepts with you that you want to get across to your audience. Writing out your whole speech will not do. Writing out your full speech may cause you to have your head buried in your notes for your entire

An effective speech is one which manages to leave the audience with a lesson for life. After thoroughly analyzing Apple’s CEO, Steve Jobs’ Commencement Speech at the 2005 Stanford graduation, I would say it was, in fact, highly effective. Jobs managed to summarize his life in three short stories that taught the audience some very valuable lessons. There are various things that separate Steve Jobs’ speech from any other and one of the most important might be his success in life. This can be the factor that makes a speech be as successful as this was. If it had been told by someone else, it wouldn’t have had the same impact.

While watching my speeches, I noticed in the beginning that most of my thoughts weren’t organized. The first speeches that I had done weren’t as organized as the speeches that I had done towards the end of the semester. I noticed that I appeared less nervous when giving my speech on how to create a simple webpage by writing HTML. I went through each individual step starting with the creation of a simple webpage and then showing what else could be done to turn it into a complex one. I think out of all of the speeches that I had done, that was the best one I had done throughout the semester. I was required to use two sources during that demonstration speech however, I forgot to say where I got the information from while giving my speech. I noticed that I forgot to cite my sources multiple times or I didn’t cite them correctly throughout my speeches. When demonstrating or showing examples about my topic, I used PowerPoint Presentations for the majority of my speeches. I did not use one for my HTML demonstration speech. I used Notepad++ instead to show how webpages are scripted and created.