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- ^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\.
-
- ^Press Page Down to proceed to Tutorial 15\~