Introduction - Speeches and Presentations

                ^Introduction - Speeches and Presentations\

Many speakers, when delivering a speech, rely on one of two methods - they

either try and memorise the speech word for word beforehand, or they read

from notes as they talk.

Both these methods are often disastrous.  Memorising the speech word for

word will make it sound exactly like that when you deliver it - memorised.

Also, there's a good chance that you will fumble over one or two words you

can't remember, and so lose the thread of your talk completely.

If you've been asked to give a speech or talk, the assumption is that you

know something about the subject you are going to talk about, so it really

shouldn't be necessary to memorise it word for word.

Reading a speech is not a good idea either, because you are likely to send

your audience to sleep rather than holding their attention.  Of course, you

can look up at your audience at regular intervals, but that won't disguise

the fact that you are reading to them, not delivering a real speech.  And,

when you look up and then look back down at your notes, there's a good

chance that you will lose your place, leading to lots of 'Er..umming'.#

Tutorial 15 teaches you some simple techniques to help you remember and

deliver any speech |confidently\ and |effectively\.

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