Lehrman's Stump Speech

Lehrman would assign the stump speech a B because it uses simple language, brief statements, and identification with others. However, it isn’t a fool proof statement and could use some work to become a good stump speech. Lehman describes a good speech as using language people understand, language people remember, and anecdote. Language people understand is defined as simple and easy to interpret words in a given speech. It is known that a good speech is one that is written at an eighth grade level. Dr. Jarvis mentioned in referenced to two speeches given by two very influential people, and the main and most important difference was the grade level that the speech was written at. Steve Jobs, in his keynote, was able to successfully engage the audience by using simple words and short sentences. His calculated grade level was an 8.2, compared to Bill Gates whose speech achieved a grade level of 9.7. At first, this different doesn 't seem that great but after reading Bill Gates’ statement, it was clearly more complex than Jobs’. He doubled the average word count for sentences and used more complex language. In the four sentence stump speech it was successful in this aspect of speech giving. It is clear and to the point and offers the audience …show more content…
It accomplished a lot of what he would describe as a compelling and memorable speech. It was used simple language that would achieve a grade level of eight or lower. I was also brief and to the point which was able to engage and attract the audience. It also was easy to remember because of the brevity of the message which was accomplished through simple sentences and a statement composed of three main points. He may not be completely pleased because the message was not able to successfully achieve anecdote in its statement. This aspect of a speech is generally harder to accomplish unless there is more space to explicitly state an instance to satisfy this