It is an organized, personal, prepared, intentional (purposeful) attempt to use words, body language, and occasionally visual or audio aids to educate, entertain, or persuade a group of people (typically five or more).

It refers to the individuals (or group) to whom the speaker addresses the message.

It refers to the age, education, culture of the audience

It refers to the attitudes, values, beliefs of the audience

It is the reason or goal behind giving it or what you want to achieve in your audience.

It refers to the actual substance of the speech: the ideas, facts, arguments, evidence, stories, statistics, examples, and illustrations that make up what you will say.

What are the considerations in developing content?

It is the attitude or emotional quality the speaker conveys toward the subject and the audience.

It refers to how the speech is delivered in terms of language choice, rhetorical devices, sentence structures, figures of speech, vocabulary, and general “flavor" in public speaking

What are the formality levels in style?

It means telling the truth, not deceiving or misleading your audience. It includes being transparent about your intentions, accurately representing facts and sources, and avoiding distortions or exaggerations.

It means treating all audience members’ rights, dignity, beliefs, and perspectives with consideration.

It includes avoiding derogatory language, insults, hate speech, stereotyping, or belittling

It means owning the consequences of your speech, being answerable for your claims or statements, and acknowledging mistakes.

It involves giving balanced treatment to different perspectives, avoiding selective bias or misrepresentation.

It refers to how the speech is delivered in terms of language choice, rhetorical devices, sentence structures, figures of speech, vocabulary, and general “flavor.”

It is the variation in your voice in terms of pitch, volume, rate (speed), pauses, tone, intonation, and emphasis It helps maintain interest, convey emotion, highlight key points, and avoid monotony

What are the factors to be considered in order to use voice modulation effectively?

It refers to nonverbal communication including gestures (hand, arm), posture, facial expressions, eye contact, movement, and space.

They are supportive materials (slides, charts, graphs, posters, videos, props) used to illustrate, reinforce, clarify, or emphasize parts of your speech.

It is the use of narrative (real or hypothetical stories, anecdotes, case studies) to engage the audience emotionally, illustrate points, make ideas memorable, and humanize content.

It refers to the organization and logical arrangement of parts in a speech.

What is the common structure of a speech?

What are the other organizational patterns in a speech?

What are the factors of public speaking?

What are the ethics of public speaking?

What are the techniques of public speaking?