College of St Joseph Public Speaking Anxiety Questions

Q 1. For your Entertaining Speech, you will deliver one of the 8 kinds of Ceremonial Speeches. For example, you may prepare a toast, an acceptance speech, a formal introduction, etc.

The piece needs to be 3-4 minutes in length. Do not use complicated word or sentences. Try to make it simple and easy

ADVICE: Each type of Ceremonial Speech has its own requirements. Review the descriptions of the different Ceremonial Speeches in Chapter 18 to ensure you meet them!

Examples of Entertaining Speeches:

Roast: Don Rickles Roasts Clint Eastwood (Links to an external site.)Acceptance Speech: Matthew McConaughey winning Best Actor (Links to an external site.)Eulogy:Barack Obama at Rosa Parks Funeral

Q2.

Chapter 6 recommends conducting a Personal Inventory to help you think about speech topics. Answer each of the questions posed for the Personal Inventory. Then, suggest a possible topic you could cover for a Technical Speech, an Informative Speech, and a Persuasive Speech. When replying to your classmates, suggest a speech topic that you would like to hear (either Technical, Informative, or Persuasive) based on their Personal Inventory.

Q3.

Using the attached Doc, please write a 2-3 paragraph plan with goals and strategies to manage any public speaking apprehension and to improve your public speaking skills. Based on result. check the number.