Gamma Phi Beta's Speech Analysis

Speakers play a big role in our every day lives. People give speeches around us all the time, whether it’s an intentional speech or an impromptu. Not every speech is given in a big auditorium with a humungous crowd. Some of the best speeches are given in a normal setting with just a small audience. When analyzing and critiquing an outside speaker there are many things that need to be accounted for that I am going to discuss about the speaker who I saw give her speech. The setup and size of the room is important to talk about. The speech was given in Gamma Phi Beta’s house. The room wasn’t particularly large, but the ceilings were high so the sound of the speaker’s voice carried without a microphone. The size of the audience wasn’t extremely numerous either with about 150 in attendance that night. Her speech ended being about 15-20 minutes in length, which was

She restated her three main points, and her thesis. In the conclusion she stuck with using comedy a little more, which helped keep the audience’s attention and make her speech be retained in the audience’s memories. She ended with the wow statement “Academic misconduct. You have a lot to lose, is it really worth it?” Which left the audience with a question, which in turn kept them thinking even after the end of her speech. Her speech did not include any visual aids. It was a completely oral speech. The credibility of the speaker was established when she stated that she was from the head department of the academic integrity office at the University of Oklahoma. She was very effective with the main focus of her speech. She was trying to make her audience not want to commit academic misconduct within their college career. Her use of personal examples of cases she has dealt with of what could go wrong, strongly influenced the audience towards the goal of her speech: to persuade the audience to not commit academic