Summarized Public Speaking Guide

By Simon Londari Lembe

This Public Speaking Guide Has Been Written For Many Different Categories of People to Suit Their Public Speaking Needs. Speakers Can Range From Religious Preachers, Politicians, Business Leaders and All Students Enrolled in Communications/Public Speaking Courses in Tertiary Institutions. Unlike Large Text Books With So Much Confusing and Junk Information On Public Speaking, This Guide Has Been Compiled and Prepared in Summary Form, Straight to the Point to Guide the Above Mentioned Category of People to Enhance Their Public Speaking Skills. For Students This Guide Contains Ready-Made Answers to Exam-Like Questions Which Would Make It Easier For Them to Pass Their Course Exams and Also Improve Their Public Speaking Skills. For the Other Three (3) Categories of People Mentioned Above, It is a Book That Can Guide Them to Become Dynamic Public Orators Since It is Short, Sharp and to the Point. The Author Being a Former Public Speaking Student and Now a Dynamic Public Speaker Has Done a Thorough Research and Compiled All Necessary Information Needed For Any Intending Public Speaker to Fulfil Their Public Speaking Goals. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Simon Londari Lembe
• Release date: Aug 17, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201737320

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TABLE OF CONTENTS 

Risks of Public Speaking........................................................................6

Ways to overcome stage fright.................................................................6

Checklist for controlling stage fright..........................................................6

Natural outlet for Speakers’ nervousness......................................................7

What must a speech have to be interesting and important..................................7

Analysing speech using Aristotle’s Principle: SPAM.......................................7

Two methods or categories of persuasion.....................................................7

Three (3) qualifications to judge a speaker’s character..........................8

Five (5) canon of rhetoric...............................................8

Five (5) levels of Communications........................................9

Five (5) levels of listening  .....................................................................9

Causes of poor listening...............................................10

How to improve listening skills.......................................10-11

The best way to develop good vocal control................................11

Importance of non-verbal delivery.....................................11-13

Use of words/languages for situation, audience and purpose...................13

General guidelines applied to almost all speeches.........................13-14

Use of dialect when presenting messages..................................14

Use of three (3) element style when presenting messages...................14-15

Ten (10) ways for speeches to be memorable...............................15

Detriments of memorable speech........................................16

Three (3) types of appeal............................................16-17

Demographics.......................................................17

Agreeing Audience...................................................18

Disagreeing Audience.................................................18

Apathetic Audience....................................................19

Understanding motive..................................................19

Location, length of speech, Specific idea in presentation.......................20

Three (3) kinds of speech purposes........................................20-21

Three (3) reasons why thesis statement is necessary.........................21 

Four (4) qualities of writing a good thesis.................................21

Four (4) guidelines of effective delivery...........................21-22

Four (4) formats of delivery..........................................22-23

Preparing notes for speech delivery................................23

Manuscript preparation (9 steps)..................................24

Effective delivery of manuscript Speech.............................24

Memorizing a speech.........................................25

Answering questions.........................................25

Four (4) good reasons to learn how to evaluate speech.................25-26

Five (5) general methods to evaluate speech ..........................26

Eight (8) guidelines for evaluating speech............................27

Three (3) kinds of data to prove a claim.............................27

Three (3) instances where Testimony is particularly useful....................28

Recommendations to use testimony effectively.............................28

Guidelines to use when using statistics.................................28-29

Four (4) commonly used methods of development ..........................29

Comparison and contrast to avoid confusion...............................29

Analogy or extended comparison (2 forms)................................29

Four (4) guidelines used in description....................................30

Definition use guideline ...............................................30

Seven (7) visual aids that supplement speech............................30-31

Two (2) advantages of newspapers, magazines and journals...................31

Four (4) good interviewing tips..........................................31

Using quoted materials ........................................31

9 Purposes of introduction......................................32

Six (6) introduction techniques...................................33

Six (6) basic patterns of organizing speech ........................33-34

Purpose of concluding a speech..................................34

Three (3) categories of a claim...................................34

Two (2) Steps in providing a claim................................34

Four (4) types of value........................................35

Test of evidence/testimony.....................................36

Five (5) categories of reasoning................................36-37

Tests of reasoning...........................................37

Weakness in arguments........................................37

Six (6) types of speeches to inform ..............................37-38

Four (4) guidelines to follow when preparing the 6 speech types................39

Developing the process speech...................................39

Developing the demonstration speech............................39-40

The purpose of the speech to persuade..............................40

Three (3) types of persuasive speeches............................40-41

Aristotle’s three (3) types of appeal when developing persuasive strategies ...41-42

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