The person that I interviewed was Cosette Hough. Cosette graduated from Youngstown State University with a degree in Education. She later became a school teacher and she taught the classes a lot about public speaking to the classes she taught. Throughout her time teaching we always were learning about public speaking and she really helped a lot of us develop in that area.
I asked her a lot of questions about introductions and conclusions and she told me that the most important thing about an introduction is grabbing the audiences attention. I asked her if she had any tips about attention getters and she said that she typically likes to start her speeches with an interesting story that sucks in the audience. She said that the most important thing of a conclusion is the closing statement. Cosette said that the closing statement is your last impression on the audience so it is important to make certain that you leave them with something to think about. If they think about your closing statement after the speech is over then she said that it was a successful speech.
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The video that I chose to analyze was the video "How To Start Your Speech (3 excellent openings)" by Jeff Roy. This video had some very helpful tips for introductions. He talked about how when starting a speech the speaker should start with something original, something powerful and something unexpected. This is advice that I really have not exactly heard before. Most people say to start with something interesting but they do not dig deeper and really say what interesting means. He talks about affective questions to start with when he says that it is affective to say "how" or "why" when asking questions in an introduction. The video relates to my topic because it is an explanation of how to start your speech. This video was very valuable because it had different tips that I have not heard before so it was kind of a different viewpoint. Citation Roy, J. (2013, August 12). How To Start Your Speech (3 excellent openings). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCBZQ8Jvg9k The blog titled, "Get Hungry for Good Speech Organization" caught my attention immediately, not only because I like food, but because there were some really great points made in this video. The speaker talked about how you need to make sure that when you give your speech that you keep the points separate, but you tie them all together. You also should use transitions to go from one point to the next especially when you go from the Introduction to the body, then from, the body to the conclusion. This information was very useful to me and it will definitely stick. Citation: Media, C. (2016, August 16). Getting Hungry for Good Speech Organization. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=107&v=y23S7CxuYMM A good training exercise for my topic would be to start writing down quotes and researching them. This can be helpful to start speeches. A great place to start would be even looking at quotes because that is helpful to the mind and motivation. When looking at quotes, this can help to make something to develop the speech from.
The video I watched by Gary Iman was about how to create a good speech. He begins by telling you that the beginning of a speech is the most important. He wants you to begin a speech with a quote, a short story, or even a question and I do agree with his statements. People can be brutal with first impressions and it can go down hill from there. Gary also informs you that it doesn't matter what it is, you just need to grab the audience's attention. He makes that as clear as day and he wants your story to be clear. This video relates to my topic because it is about delivering a good speech and having good introductions and conclusions. It really has helped me in the past when I first started doing speeches in my classes so I thought that it would be good to share for this assignment. This video is valuable for people because it shows them how to develop good introductions and conclusions and as Gary states, that is what is most important in a speech. Citation: Iman, G. (2014, February 08). How to Write Speech Introductions and Conclusions. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krsgrciNB7g The person that I decided to interview was my high school English teacher and football coach Andrew Whitmer. Whither graduated from the University of Akron after serving in the military. He was always public speaking whether it be for events with the military, for football awards, and even in class. He would host most of the assemblies in our school over the principal because he was such a good speaker. Whitmer could really get the attention of all of the students and make us want to pay attention and learn. I chose to interview him because I felt that he is very trustworthy and really could help me to complete this.
I asked Whitmer quite a few questions about having a good introduction and conclusion. After I asked him what was the most important about an introduction he told me that he really believes that it is confidence and the way that you walk in. Within such a short period of time people are going to make an opinion about you and about what they think so if you go in there looking good, you'll do good. He is a big fan of the motto, "You look good, you'll do good." I thought that this was interesting because I do feel like it is accurate. He also said that for the introduction it is important to start with a great attention getter. You need to make the beginning of the speech good so that the audience wants to continue to listen to you. If you start out the speech boring it is going to be very hard to keep their attention throughout the rest of the speech. When I asked him about the conclusion, he said that personally he really tries to end his speeches with something that the audience can think about. He wants his audience to really reflect on what the speech was about and really think about the message. Like most english teachers, he made it very clear to go over the thesis, the points that you talked about previously, and definitely NOT to say any new information. Jill Schiefelbein is the Youtube "Guru," and I learned this for sure after watching about good introductions and Conclusions. She talks about great tips that were very helpful to me. She talked a lot about how to control nervousness and how to control awkward moments when giving a speech. I learned that using your hands is not so bad after all, but it is important to be conscious of the use. She also focused a lot about controlling your voice. You need top be able to take over a room, often times people tend to speck softer when there is a large amount of people in the room. You cannot take control over a room if anyone in the back rows can't hear you.
To end the video she talked about confidence. You need it to be able to talk to someone, if you think you will fail naturally you will. She wants you to go in with a good mind set and knowing that the point will get through to the people. Most often, people talk about what it is important to say in a speech, but it is not as often that people really include that you need to have confidence and present yourself well. Citation: Schiefelbein, J. (2013, January 10). Introductions and Conclusions: Organizing a Public Speech or Presentation. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZbM2MNtzUc The Youtube video I watched was hosted by a man named Gary Iman. He talked about a lot of things but one drew me in the most was a good introduction and conclusion, he went in depth with importance of it, and the importance of how you write it. Speeches can go in any direction and he had the idea of putting it in to one focus, and it is very simple make the audience interested. He talks about starting speeches with a quote or even some questions anything to interact. Even research says that first impression is what a lot of people base it off of. It is like telling a story in a story, you give them a brief summary then go into detail because it is good to create a picture.
As he worked his way toward the conclusion side of it, he talked how you need to get the clear image of what is going on to the audience. Create a path of what is going on and make great detail of what is going on. The depth of it and bringing back part at the start that go into play at the end. Even warnings or cues throughout this would help. Citation Iman, G. (2014, February 08). How to Write Speech Introductions and Conclusions. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krsgrciNB7g |
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