SPEECHES

• Delivery Methods


  • Impromptu
  • Extemporaneous
  • Manuscript
  • Memorized
• Impromptu


  A speech that has no advanced planning or practice
• Impromptu


  • Think for a second about what you are going to say
  • Keep your points brief and to the point
  • Take a few seconds between thoughts to compose yourself
• Extemporaneous


  Involves the speaker's use of notes and some embellishment to deliver a speech
• Extemporaneous


  • Have note cards or prompts that guide him from point to point
• Manuscript


  The speaker reads every word from a pre-written speech
• Memorized


  The rote recitation of a written message that the speaker has committed to memory
• William Jennings Bryan: '"Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart."'