Explain some things a speaker can do to make their message easier to follow and help gain audience attention.
What will be an ideal response?
- Strategically plan the organization of the speech in a way that makes your thesis and overall argument clear to listeners.
- State your main ideas explicitly so that listeners can easily identify them.
- Speak at a rate that sustains listeners' interest but is not so rapid that they have to struggle to keep up with you.
- Repeat your main ideas and key points, signaling to the audience that these are important.
- Use pauses to mark the transitions in the speech.
- Summarize your thesis and main ideas memorably.
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