A Pocket Guide To Public Speaking Analysis

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The seventh chapter of A Pocket Guide to Public Speaking deals with selecting a topic and purpose. This is accomplished through exploring speech ideas, determining the purpose of your speech, and refining these to fit your goals. This paper will summarize each of these sections. Exploring speech ideas is accomplished through several tasks: “identifying personal interests”, “considering current events and controversial issues”, “engaging the community”,
“steering clear of overused or trivial topics”, and “brainstorming to generate ideas”. (p. 45 – 47)
Personal interests and experiences can make for great topics as it allows the speaker to better relate to what they are talking about and conveys through the speech. Likewise, listeners