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My Speech Com. teacher was so obessed with us figuring out what our audience wanted that she made us send 2 surveys to half the class per speech, and filling out 20 speech surveys per speech type takes more time than to write a very interesting speech about a topic the audience may/may not seem interested in at the beginning.

I attend a college that stresses volunteering like it is a requirement, so I would personally rather hear about how to make a paper boat and what a person can do with it. Is your speech to inform/demostrate? If so, you could make the boat while you explain how to and demostrate the uses so the auditory, visual, and kinestetic people can remember the speech. Good luck on your speech .

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Originally Posted by Jochie

Speech classes are a bitch because of the audience size. I get really nervous as soon as I start to make a speech and pretty much have a fight or flight response -- but it should decrease over time. I've spoken to large audiences of around 500 people and done pretty well just by pretending there is no audience and reading aloud, but no. Any job anyone will ever get with a college degree will require public speaking skills. Did you know that?

Thanks, Crash, for the idea of using stories to illustrate the process. I think it'd be best to just phrase each step in some kind of example form, though. Again with the avoiding persuasive tone thing.

I know what you mean. I've been giving speeches for almost 5 years and I still get nervous at the beginning of giving a speech. I normally try to pretend that the audience doesn't exist...except for their eyes since eye contact is important. Communication is a very important job skill and many people tend to make fun of Communication majors b/c they think the most they can do is say "Do you want fries with that?" and sound nice while saying it. It's nice to see someone else who respects how important public speaking can be in reality.

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