Parts of speech

know already, the class is based around giving speeches and learning to better project your ideas to a public audience. Whenever I am about to give a speech, I go back to the night of the Distinguished Young Women Program. I think about how well I did and how I felt when I won that award. Thinking of this helps me to calm down and refocus on the speech at hand. I then go on to excel at giving my…

to understand from the perspective of a first-time listener. The second guideline is “Relate the subject directly to the audience.” In order to give a successful speech, the speaker must keep the audience interested. Relating the subject to the audience is one clear way of doing this. For example, in my informative speech on the Culper Spy Ring, I started out by showing a picture of James Bond. The entire audience recognized the character, and was almost immediately interested simply…

dreading having to say the first speech. Then we had our first online class, I felt a lot more prepared and had a better understanding of what was expected. Through com103 I was able to grow an understanding of how to prepare and organize a speech, I was able to decrease the anxiety I get before a speech, effectively listen and am now more prepared to talk and…

Informative Speech Self-Evaluation Assignment Speech Topic: Ninjas 1. Evaluate the success of your introduction. I feel that my introduction did a good job of getting my audience’s attention by catching there attention with the picture of one of the disguise commonly used by ninjas. I also feel that I did an ok job at establishing my credibility. But I think that a rushed a bit at the begging and started off a little flustered. 2. Evaluate your delivery. For most of my speech I feel that I…

In the play Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, revenge is possibly the biggest theme topic in the entire play. A large part of the revenge that is spoken about, comes from Hamlet and his desire to get vengeance against the current King, Claudius, for murdering his father. There are many speeches that convey the idea of revenge within the play, but I have gathered two of them that I feel represent the theme in a way that explains why it occurs so often. The first of the two speeches is orated by a…

I cannot believe that is has already been four weeks—four weeks of constant arduous work that keeps expanding my mind in dimensions I have never sought for before. This past week, it was the dimension of speech writing, the layer I have never thought I would be able to achieve because I am a terrible writer… Initially, I planned on writing about slavery as if I lived in the 19th century as a slave owner coming to a realization of how slaves impede the growth of this country morally.…

hardest things to do when considering giving a speech is choosing a topic and this gives you a few good suggestions and pointers on how to do it correctly with ease. I t is a good idea to keep in mind, when writing your speech, the general purpose of your speech. It states that you are probably giving a speech for one of two reasons which is to inform your listeners or persuade them. This is important because it will help you create the structure of your speech and get the right tone behind it…

small or bigger group of people whether we like it or not. Public speaking cannot be eliminated, we do it often even without realizing it, and sadly for those people who doesn’t like doing it including myself ended up not not being able to deliver the speech very well. But, what is there to be afraid of public speaking? I was born and raise in the Philippines until 2008 of December when my family and I migrated in the United States of America. Although many foreign people think that we use…

The title of this speech is "Giving A Demonstration", presented by Scott. S Smith. The style or genre of the speech appears to be informative, educational and promotional. The aim or rather the purpose of the speaker is to promote the product Vspeak 2000 by stating its beneficial factors and to guide the audience through the ways of utilizing the product. The content of the speech is organized appropriately into three parts. The first part involves teaching the audience how to transfer a call…

The first speech a person delivers can make or break other people’s initial impressions of him or her, giving them a reputation that may overshadow other qualities, good or bad. The crowd could love every word of the speech, and the speaker would revel in their everlasting applause. On the other hand, it could leave a stinging impression on the audience that would inhibit them from looking past this one particular speech if it did not suit their opinions. This type of situation can be every…