It is a bit of a coincidence that the speech class I am coaching this morning is all about manuscript speeches. Manuscript is not the speech shttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.giftyle I recommend.As a public speaking instructor/coach my goal is for those involved to become comfortable with extemporaneous (carefully rehearsed spontaneity) speaking.
Seth Godin, a marketing guru and leadership instructor, has a concise way of putting things in his blog. It just happens that today's blog that he titles, "Your voice will give you away." on the question of reading or presehttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifnting your talk. I recommend reading his words.
In my Coker College speech class this morning we are doing an exercise in manuscript speaking. Most of the students will be using a two-minute speech excerpt from one of the top 100 speeches of the 2http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif0th century. They are asked to find an interesting part of the speech and to then extract a two-minute section. They then present that two minutes to the class -- not memorized but as a manuscript speech. There are several goals for this assignment but one is for students to see how preparation can help them internalize the message so that even if they will read most of the talk, they will have enough familiarity with the material to make a real connection with the audience. They will also see how right Seth Godin is because some student will only read and the reading will not engage the students. As the class leader my hope is that students will get it as they hear it and not make those "reading" mistakes when it comes to their own presentations and speeches.
Friday, January 13, 2012
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