You may experience an overwhelming fear that posesses you when you think of speaking in public, but alas, not all things can be avoiding during the course of your lifetime. You must resign yourself to the fact that you must talk in front of people, and potentially embarrass yourself, at some point in your life. While the risk is there, somewhere inside of you is the aspiration to wow a crowd with an eloquent speech and be known as silver-tongued. Quite often, the outcome of your speech does not rest upon whether you wish to do a fantastic job or not, but on how well you have prepared and practiced each element of your speech. In the following essay I will gift you with some wonderful advice on how to successfully obtain the title of being …show more content…
Regardless of whether it is a formal or informal speech, always coming back to the purpose of your speech will help you to stay on track and to not waste time while preparing for it. While working on an informative speech for my public speaking class about the differences between llamas and alpacas, I found that there were heaps of interesting information to choose from. Keeping my outline, with my purpose statement for my speech in front of me, was vital to determining which resources and information that I wanted to utilize. Sometimes less is more, and in the case of holding your audience's attention and helping them to track with your main points, any supurfrivilous information should be left out of your speech. One of your greatest weapons for helping cut out boring facts and information is to include relevant stories which includes the information that you are wanting to include in your speech. While preferrably it will be a personal story, know that any story that draws your audience's attention and promotes your message is a good one. Chances are, that you will not be talking to an audience of rocket scientists, so try to keep your topic, arguments and language clear and concise. Do this in a way that does not make your audience feel dumb or you look like a snooty genius, and you will be one step closer to becoming a great