"Can someone help me with my Informative Speech topic: Dealing with Speaker Problems?" I badly need it..please

Question

I would be having my informative speech this March and my topic would be about "SPEAKER PROBLEMS". It talks about the problems encountered by the speaker during his/her speech. Like for example: physical problems, saying the wrong thing, going blank (mental block), handling assorted mishaps... please help me to find some researches or studies about it. Thank you...

Answer 1

Grab yourself a book or two about Puplic Speaking and dig in. My Communications 101 class was all about public speaking, from preparation to audience to mishaps and other stumbling blocks the speaker might run into.

Some tips for the public speaker:

Overcoming fear: Practice your speech in front of a mirror. Avoid looking down as much as possible. As you get more familiar with your speech, practice in front of family and friends and ask them to critique you. If eye contact stumbles you, focus instead on another object behind the audience, such as the back wall. Also, look around. Pick two or three different points and switch between them occasionally.

Mental blocks: Use notecards with your main topics and reminders of what you want to say. DON'T read from a full page of scripted speech, you're more apt to overlook something and mess up.

Saying the wrong thing: Not sure what you mean here so I'll hit on a couple of things. 1) Know your audience. Get an idea of their general knowledge of the subject or at least their average educational level. You don't want to talk to pros like kindergarten kids, and vice versa. 2) Know your topic. Study up on everytihng even if it's something you're very familiar with, you don't want to provide false or outdated information. 3) Use your notecards.

Mishaps: Don't focus on them. So you knocked over your bottled water. Keep going and draw attention back to your speech. The janitor will clean up the mess later. If it's a technical malfunction, when all else fails improvise.

Those are just a few things I recall from class. Again, grab some books and surf the web... what can be more fun than giving a speech on giving a speech?

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Ask your local librarian. There are audio tapes as well as books about public speaking.