Speech Preliminaries – Concerning delivery

Concerning Delivery

After these preliminaries, prepare your speech and allow space and time for interpolations. Although you speak from an outline, it is well to write it out as a guide for timing your talk.

There are four possible ways for delivering a speech:
1. Write it out now and read it to the audience later.
2. Write it out, memorize it, and then deliver it.
3. Write out only an outline, and memorize the ideas.
4. Present a wholly impromptu speech.

Highly technical papers, elaborate theses, and papers of state, require profound study and should be read for accuracy’s sake. Any other speech should not be read word for word. Writing it out is all right but reading it isn’t. They want you to talk to them-and if you read your speech with your head bowed you automatically lose most of your personal appeal your animated face and sparkling eyes, and all else that makes you a sought-after personality.

You might memorize your speech: This has an advantage in that you will cut down on time and you’ll employ fancy phrases you wouldn’t ordinarily use. Yet those who give a completely “learned-by-heart” lecture always sound stiff and stilted. They are lacking in spontaneity. These memory-moguls still write out and refer to notes for, if memory should fail them and they are cruelly caught with their lines down, they’d be in a pitiful plight.

The wholly spontaneous and impromptu talk is best avoided if at all possible. However if you think there is any possibility that you might be asked to say a few words, it’s handy to have a few quips on hand. If you are urged to comment on a pending matter with which you are wholly unfamiliar, express appreciation for the recognition you received; tell the audience you know so little about the problem that you’d rather sit down before your ignorance shows.  Then do exactly that!

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