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C&C Graduation Speech

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CaucasianAsian
Profile Blog Joined September 2005
Korea (South)11577 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-10-08 20:36:58
May 12 2008 03:43 GMT
#1


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Juicyfruit
Profile Joined May 2008
Canada5484 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-05-12 04:22:38
May 12 2008 04:15 GMT
#2

Edit: whoa, I read over it too fast and didn't realize it was a speech. This changes everything.
dinmsab
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Malaysia2246 Posts
May 12 2008 04:19 GMT
#3
To be honest, I think its quite short, how long do you intend your speech to be? and btw, reading/memorizing your speech is never a good idea. You should just list down the points and make up the lines yourself, its pretty fail safe that way. Be confident, dont worry too much about your lines not making much sense, people wont realize that when you sound confident. Take your time to talk, dont rush.... and good luck
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Falcynn
Profile Blog Joined June 2005
United States3597 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-05-12 05:10:56
May 12 2008 05:06 GMT
#4
On May 12 2008 13:19 dinmsab wrote:
To be honest, I think its quite short, how long do you intend your speech to be? and btw, reading/memorizing your speech is never a good idea. You should just list down the points and make up the lines yourself, its pretty fail safe that way. Be confident, dont worry too much about your lines not making much sense, people wont realize that when you sound confident. Take your time to talk, dont rush.... and good luck
Pretty much every speech class I've taken says to do exactly that. Don't write out a whole paper and try to memorize it, just jot down a few notes and fill the blanks in yourself as you go along. However, assuming that you already know that and this is just what you envision yourself saying, then it sounds pretty good. It's kind of hard to critique considering I don't know what exactly the subject of the speech is supposed to be or how long it's supposed to be. Normally most times I have to give a speech in class it's required to be about 5 minutes, and if this is true for your class then you need alot more substance since you could probably go through that thing in less than a minute.

If you need ideas of what to expand on try talking about why you got held up, what exactly was it that you were doing through highschool that made you wish you put more effort in the things you described.

Edit: oh wait, by graduation speech you mean like the kind of thing a valid victorian (sp?) would give? If that's the case then try to relate the speech to everyone rather than talking about yourself mostly...yeah that's about all I can think of...
Edit2: Actually disregard that, you don't seem to talk about yourself as much as I thought you did on my first read through. Assuming I understand what it is you're giving a speech on then it's fine.
zdd
Profile Blog Joined October 2004
1463 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-05-12 06:02:45
May 12 2008 05:21 GMT
#5
speech basics:
1. have a set of points that you would like to make, and tie them together using one thesis sentence -- remember people do not remember everything you say, just the main points, so you want them to be distinct and memorable

2. use the speech to expand/prove those points, with smooth transitions between the points

3. conclude the speech by summarizing and generalizing

4. make an outline: your speech is not an essay, and no one is expecting you to recite something word for word, it doesn't sound good and it is extremely difficult to do.
your outline should look something like:
--------------
Introduction
hook - get your audience interested, this can be a quotation, a question, a joke, an act, etc.
points: state your points quickly, concisely and completely (a person should be able to guess your entire speech from this short set of statements)
thesis: make an argument, generalization, or main point that ties all your points together and makes a persuasive case.
--------------
Body
point A - state quickly what it is
expand using personal experiences, quotes, etc.
[Transition : smoothly transition from A to B using a comparison, sequence, etc. examples: "another reason for x is y", "despite x, y", "in addition to providing x, y also provides z"]
point B
[Transition]
point C
[Transition]
....etc...
-----------------
Conclusion
summarize your introduction, thesis
make a concluding statement that expands on the overall theme of the speech, and makes generalizations based on it.

note: your outline is not an essay either, one word for each point should be sufficient.

5. practice - once your outline is done, the best thing you can do is practice. grab your outline and go through the speech timing yourself, are you within the time limit, are there things you need to take out, things you need to put in? go back and revise the outline. once you're happy with the timing and content, it's on to the...

6. presentation - when people listen to someone, presentation matters more than content. if you are confident, loud, and persuasive, your audience will like your speech almost regardless of its content.

Your hand gestures have to be sparse but effective, too much and you run the risk of distracting your audience, too little and you run the risk of boring them to death. your eye contact needs to be consistent, and spread out evenly among the entire audience. your voice has to be clear, loud, and persuasive. if you make subconscious movements while you are nervous, such as shifting around, you will distract the audience and not even realize it, so you need to consciously control your body throughout the speech. this also applies to words like "um", "uh", "now", "like", etc. practice with a friend for this and make sure they tell you everything that they don't like about your delivery so that you can improve it.

oh and one more thing, if you take your outline with you to present the actual speech (which you should, in case you get stuck in the heat of the moment and need a quick glance at the next point) make sure to never make it obvious to the audience that you have it, and under no circumstances read from it. more than a half-second glance at the outline seems like forever to your audience, which makes you seem unprepared/unprofessional
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LosingID8
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
CA10828 Posts
May 12 2008 05:29 GMT
#6
i thought you were talking about command and conquer at your graduation speech
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hunter3
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United States155 Posts
May 12 2008 06:12 GMT
#7
I thought it was about Command and Conquer too.

"How can one speech describe the individual experience of Command and Conquer? Our experiences are different because we all took different paths. Some of us massed tanks. Some of us went for the superweapon. But as I sat there playing, I realized that we are more similar than you can imagine. Because in the end, we all played the same game... Starcraft...."
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