speech

Professional Speaker Analysis Paper

. Choose a single professional speaker (not a student of any level) to listen to. Speaker must be giving a lecture (see below for specifics).

. Lecture must be at least 30 minutes long. This doesn’t include any Q&A section. You don’t need to listen to the Q&A, if included in the video.

. Format must be a lecture given by only one speaker---(Interviews, podcasts, voice over photos or animation, political rallies, campaign speeches, panel discussions, Q&A sessions, sermons, group workshops, stand-up comedy, theatre piece or book readings are not acceptable speaking formats for this analysis paper—you will only receive assignment credit for analyzing a lecture given by one speaker—like what you do in class.)

. Must be a speaker heard during this course period.

. Type a 4-5 page paper, elaborating on all 10 of the points below. (each is worth 10 points)

. Please include link to video in your paper.

. Please be specific. Do not only report what you experienced---offer your opinions, thoughts and observations, based on knowledge gained in this class.

. Use appropriate grammar, spelling, punctuation and vocabulary.

Points to cover in paper:

1. Identify Speaker and describe his/her credibility.

2. Discuss and analyze the Introduction: What technique was used for attention getter??—discuss effectiveness. What was the topic of the speech?? What reason was given why speech would be valuable/useful to you, the audience??

3. Was there a preview of the main points? Briefly identify the main points.

4. Name the types of support that were used in Body of speech, and discuss effectiveness. Discuss the effectiveness of citations used for support material.

5. Discuss and analyze the Conclusion. Was there an effective main point summary? Discuss the closing remarks and the technique that was used.

6. Were transitions used? Discuss effectiveness in making speech understandable.

7. Discuss and analyze verbal communication: pace, volume, diction, vocal variety, vocal fillers---What worked, what didn’t?

8. Discuss and analyze non-verbal (body language) communication (hand and body movement, eye contact) and speaker’s personal appearance---what worked, what didn’t?

9. Were visual aids used? Discuss their effectiveness to speech. Discuss understandability of speech if visual aids were not used.

10. Discuss effectiveness of speech as a whole---What would you tell speaker to do to improve speech--make it more effective??