Speaking Tips for my Speech Communication students.

1. Yes, You Can
Get Ready
For Public Speaking
Speech Communication SPH101
D. P. LaRochelle
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2. Content
Start with a
Getting
Purpose
Started Statement
Writing Intro
Brainstorming Your Body
Speech Conclusion
Organize Cite
Main Your
Points Sources
Revise Practice Showtime!

3. Brainstorm for
ideas and make an Remember who
outline of what your audience is
you want to say. and write for it.

4. Writing your speech
You've heard it before: every piece of writing
needs a beginning, middle and an end.

5. Get your
ideas and
main points
down.
There's plenty
of time for
revising and
polishing.
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6. Is your first sentence an
attention getter?
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7. Is the body of your speech tight and coherent?
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8. Is your ending balanced with the rest of the piece?
Did you get all your points across?

9. Watch out for redundancies
or obvious statements
Don't be afraid to get rid of excess adjectives,
entire sentences or paragraphs

10. Revise, Revise, Revise
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11. You must acknowledge the origin of the work
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Your audience needs to know what parts of the work
are your original thoughts, ideas, and/or research.

12. You've got
something that
resembles a
speech. Now find a
red pen and read it
out loud like
you've never seen
it before.

13. Make sure your
verbs are active,
not passive;
check for flow,
clarity, sentence
structure, smooth
transitions
between
paragraphs, tense
consistency and
spelling errors.

15. Practice in front of a friend,
if possible.
Ask them to tell you about if
something does not make sense.
A mirror will do in a pinch.

17. Picture Credit: The Lowry – Lyric Theatre