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Speak conversationally from your knowledge of the topic (not from notes or memorized script).
Maintain direct, consistent and comfortable eye contact with audience throughout your presentation. Project your voice at a clear and comfortable volume appropriate for the size of the room/audience.
Maintain direct, consistent and comfortable eye contact with audience throughout your presentation.
Speak with a varied, dynamic, interesting pace (avoid using a 'sing-song,' predictable rhythmic-pattern).
Use silent pauses between points, avoid fillers such as 'um, ah, uh, like, you know, etc.'
Use supportive gestures; move with purpose (avoid pacing and distracting movement).
Present information with energy and enthusiasm to engage your audience's attention and interest.
Maintain a professional (i.e., appropriate), organized, and well-prepared delivery throughout.
Keep your speech within the time limit provided.
You provide your audience with printed materials, in which you provide the outline of your presentation, references list, etc.
You greet your audience and then build on areas of agreement in order to gain trust and make your audience agree with you from the start.
Introduce what the main points of your speech are going to be about. It needs to include your thesis statement in a clear way.
Provides audience with new information, insights, or ways of thinking about the given topic & falls under one of the following categories: a speech about phenomena/people/events/issues/concepts.
Your arguments are clear and directly support your main claim. They do not insult or offend the opposing view and are well-balanced.
Provide examples for your main points. Examples may be another quotation, a research study, personal experience, etc.
Provide a concluding remark that echoes the introduction of your speech.
You are using at least three external sources and you provide both in-text citations and reference list. The reference list uses correct APA style.
They are used to explain, clarify, illustrate or summarize information from the speech. All presentation aids are used according to the guidelines discussed in class (the right size, the right font, etc).
Appropriate use of grammar and transitional signals throughout your speech.
Speak clearly and concisely and make sure to pronounce the sounds of words correctly.