The document provides guidance on how to make a good speech. It recommends that a good speech should be concise, organized, tailored to the audience, persuasive, and credible. It emphasizes focusing the speech, clearly outlining the main points, understanding the target audience, using persuasive techniques to appeal to listeners, appearing knowledgeable and trustworthy, and practicing delivery through methods like rehearsing in front of a mirror. The document also offers tips for dealing with anxiety such as using hand motions and breathing steadily.

1. HOW TO MAKE A
GOOD SPEECH
By
Rafiel Saavedra

2. QUALITIES OF A GOOD SPEECH
 Concise
 Organized
 Tailored to Audience
 Persuasive
 Credible
 Proper Delivery

3. CONCISE
 Say what you need to say
 Nothing more
 Nothing less
 Be focused
 There is always a time limit
 Saying too much bores and is counterproductive
 Saying too little leaves audience confused

4. ORGANIZED
 You have your points
 You say your points
 You move on
 Speech has clear beginning middle and end

5. AUDIENCE
 Who are you talking to?
 Identity of your audience is imperative
 Are you talking to:
 elementary school students?
 college students?
 business men and woman?
 union workers?
 Same speech can be made differently

6. PERSUASIVE
 Appeal to the audience
 Convince them of your speech
 Several ways to do this:
 Humor
 Evidence based logic
 Bandwagoning
 Fearmongering
 And many many more
 Wikipedia has several more examples here and here

7. CREDIBLE
 People need a reason to believe you
 Sound like you know what you’re doing
 Look like you know what you’re doing
 Look likeable
 Clean shaven
 Clean clothes
 Well dressed
 Well combed

8. DELIVERY
 Way you say it is more powerful than how you say it
 Good hand motions
 Confident body language
 Fluent speech
 Good attitude

9. PREPARATION
 Good ways to practice your speech:
 Talk to yourself in the mirror
 (Doing this allows you to see your visual mistakes (i.e. body
language))
 Repetition
 (The more you do it the more you know it the more prepared you
are)
 Extemporaneous speaking
 Don’t memorize you speech word by word
 Memorize concepts and order of delivery
 Allows you to improvise on the spot
 Preserves speech emotion

10. DEALING WITH ANXIETY
 Hand motions
 Help give outlet to nervous energy
 Helps pacing, gives you rhythm
 Practice with friend or family
 Especially the encouraging kind, they set you up for success
 Talk to a pet if you have no one else
 Breath properly
 Breath steadily even if the rest of you isn’t steady
 Breathing steadily gives you rhythm and relaxes
 More tips here!

11. VIDEOS!!!
 Here’s more good advice on good speechmaking
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffyEFL7Feag
 Here’s how NOT to make a speech
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YivQYeI0vys

12. REFERENCES
 Cat Stare Picture http://www.podpocalypse.com/tag/cat-stare/
 We Need You pic http://www.nowpublic.com/world/we-need-you
 Of course, thank you YouTube for these great videos.
 Thank you Wikipedia for its sites
 Thank you University of Rochester for its webpage
 Everything else from Microsoft office.