:smiley1:to give a good speech what are the rules presented? Many people think it is difficult to give a speech and many of them have a great fear of speaking in front of the audience.what do you think?

Thanks for your sharing. :icon_tup:It will be necessary when I explain my term paper in front of the big audience, my sir. :)

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THE FIRST SET OF RULES APPLY TO ALL TYPES OF SPEECHES:

1. Tailor your voice to the type of speech. Sound confident and definitive when delivering an instructional
lecture.Use a conversational voice for one that is more entertaining.
2. Vary the pitch and volume (loudness) of the voice to emphasize points.
3. Speak in complete sentences and don't hesitate between words.
4. Be friendly. Look at the audience and make eye contact with different individuals in it; speak to them.
5. Ask questions to engage the audience's attention.
6. Avoid extreme mannerisms such as continuously waving your hands back and forth, the "fig- leaf clutch"
(clasping both hands together, down in front), keeping your hands in pockets, leaning on the podium.
7. Know what you want to say and be prepared.
8. Make an outline of speech. It should have an introduc tion, body, and a conclusion

Henry H. Fisher

RULES FOR GIVING A FORMAL LECTURE:

9. Know the subject. The speaker knows more about subject than the audience does. If the speaker wasn't the
expert then someone else would be giving the speech. Geology is exciting, and the speaker's voice should
express that.
10. Be entertaining. First, grab the audience's attention, then inform them.
11. Be enthusiastic. Why speak about something you don't like?
12. Keep it simple. Audience members can't absorb too many facts. For the most part, details are easier to learn if
they are read from a book than heard in a speech.
13. Determine the main point(s) of the speech and stress them. Make sure all important parts are covered.
14. Keep slightly too much (but less important) material available for the speech. Less important material may be
used to fill up time at the end of a speech that is too short. It can be omitted if the speaker runs out of time.
15. If speech is not memorized, write out notes (key words), not complete sentences. Sometimes the notes can be
written after a speech is written as complete sentences. Enlarge the notes on a computer or copying machine to size
20 font, or larger. The speaker can then stand back from the notes (even walk away from a podium), see them,
be reminded of the various points to cover, and appear to be quite prepared when speaking. The speaker can
walk back to the podium and turn over the note pages from time to time. Speaking from notes forces the
speaker to fill in the missing words to form complete sentences and gives the speech a "freshness." ONLY
ACTORS OR PROFESSIONAL SPEAKERS CAN READ COMPLETE SENTENCES AND MAKE THEIR
SPEECHES SOUND LIKE ORDINARY CONVERSATION.
16. NEVER, NEVER apologize for any mistakes unless they are important technical mistakes that you realize
while giving the speech, and then correct them as soon as possible. Audience members probably won't notice
ordinary mistakes that many speakers call attention to such as "I forgot to bring slide such-and-such," or "the
quality of the slide is poor." Drawing attention to them by apologizing emphasizes them, makes them
obvious, and they then appear worse.
17. Rehearse the speech.
18. Don't give handouts out too early during speech unless it is absolutely important. Audience members tend to
look at handouts and not pay attention to the speaker. The audience members also may be taking notes and
lose track of the speakers thought s.

RULES FOR SHOWING ILLUSTRATIONS:

1. DON'T FACE THE PICTURES WHILE SPEAKING, face the audience and speak to people in it.
2. Use pictures only when applicable - not to merely enter tain (during a formal lecture) or kill time.
3. Do not use pictures as an outline for a speech.
4. Many speakers show too many pictures. Choose pictures wisely and don't show all that you have.
5. We learn a lot from hearing. Pictures are useless if a per son can close their eyes and learn as much from
listening to the speech. This is what makes the TV program 60 nMinutes so good. It is really radio
with pic tures — and it was designed to be that way. The spoken word is the most important part of 60
Minutes. I do not mean to imply that pictures are useless as they can reinforce the spoken word.
6. Consider whether projecting the main points and sub- points as text on a screen really aids the
speech. It is possible to emphasize points verbally by a change in the pitch or volume rather than by
projecting text.
7. DON'T READ PROJECTED TEXT TO THE AUDIENCE, IT IS INSULTING, those in your audienc e
know how to read!
8. Use pictures to show a specific point, not a generality the audience is familiar with. For example, don't
say an area has a landslide and then show an ordinary picture of a landslide; an audience of
geologists should know what landslides are like. Showing a specific feature of a par ticular slip can be
done if it will add to the speech.
9. Don't show pictures that would be meaningless to the audience. Don't show a photomicrograph of a
specific fossil to an audience of ground water geologists, most of them won't know whether they are
seeing the right or wrong fossil, and they probably won't care.
10. Don't show text or diagrams that are complicated or too small to be seen. If such pictures must be sho wn
then the speaker must interpret them for the audience.
11. Depending on the type of speech and the order of presentation, slides and handouts might best be
shown after speaking.
12. Show each picture for a minimum of five seconds. If it is worth showing, than it should be seen for a
reasonable amount of time.
RULES FOR MAKING PICTURES:

1. All illustrations should be bold and simple.
2. Don't show long formulas or equations.
3. The minimum height of readable lettering on a slide is 3-mm.
4. It is best to show only 1 or 2 curves on a diagram. Three or 4 curves is the maximum, but only if they are
well separated.
5. Do not use more than 3 or 4 vertical columns in an illus tration; 6 to 8 horizontal lines.
Following this advice will improve most speakers. In conclusion, remember good speakers can "get away"
with all kinds of deliveries; and when you're good so can you! And the audience will love you.

Henry H. Fisher

thankss a lot:)