PUBLIC SPEAKING

• Public Speaking - Live oratorical activity that means a speaker engages with his/her audience through speech.
• Three important factors of public speaking:

  • Personality
  • Structure
  • Delivery
• Personality - Refers to your total physical , mental, and emotional traits.
• Structure - Refers to the content of your message
• Delivery - Refers to the quality of your voice, use of appropriate gestures, and facial expressions.
• Two ways to prepare a speech for delivery:

  • Prepared Speech
  • Impromptu Speech
• Prepared Speech - It is when a speaker or a presenter have composed a speech ahead of time of the actual presentation.
• Impromptu Speech - It is the opposite of the prepared speech where the speaker or the presenter is given little to no time to prepare the speech.
• Ethics of Public Speaking:

  • Respect your audience
  • Present meaningful content
  • Do not plagiarize
  • Be honest and be yourself
• Ethics of Public Speaking - Refers to the standards/guidelines on how speakers should deliver their speeches
• Confidence - The state of believing that you are capable of doing anything that you put your mind to
• Types of speech for special occassions:

  • Toast and Roast
  • Welcome Speech
  • Tribute
  • Introducing a guest speaker
  • Closing remark
• Toast - Intended to congratulate the achievements of a person
• Roast - Satirical version of toast
• Roastee - The one that gets mocked, ridiculed, and embarrassed in roast.
• Tribute - Inspires, motivates, and admires people for any kind of achievement they have acquired
• Welcome Speech - States the reason for the event and acknowledges the host.
• Closing Remarks - States the conclusion of an event.
• Introducing a guest speaker - The host orients the audience about the speaker.
• Campaign Speech - Speeches to persuade, inspire and mobilize people to strengthen and assess their political, religious, and social insights in making reformative action.
• Advocacy Speech - Supports a particular cause, principle, or policy that an individual or group would want to pursue to work on.
• Advocacy Speech - Acts as a voice to address the concerns of the underprivileged or the disadvantaged.
• Campaigns - Advertisments, sales promotions, public relations, or meaningful socio-civic activities that aim to take action toward a specific cause, using various persuasive mechanisms.
• Research - Structured or organized inquiry about concepts unfamiliar to you.