What makes a good speech? by Paula Swartz

2025-05-01 23:58:54 UTC

Speaking with confidence, calm, and expressive thinking, using eye contact, and gestures. Controlling one's own pace to help the audience understand the point is also important.

2025-05-01 23:58:59 UTC

Confident poise
suitable volume
positive life
Adequate eye contact
Good gesture
Good content of the speech
-->Engaging information

Ellieshulist — 2025-05-01 23:59:15 UTC

Clear voice
- Articulate speaking
- Life and energy
- Reasonable volume (loud enough for the audience to hear)
Good poise
- No fidgeting
- Straight posture
Eye contact
Gestures (when necessary)

2025-05-01 23:59:57 UTC

To be a good speaker, I think confidence, gestures, and eye contact is one of the most important skills because it makes the audience to focus and attention to the speaker more, with the clear voice and poise when speaking.

2025-05-02 00:00:01 UTC

A good speaker is confident in their own opinions and expresses them with clarity and conviction. They are not easily swayed by criticism and stay determined to their beliefs, even when facing opposing views. However, they are also open-minded enough to listen to feedback and consider different perspectives. They mostly uses PVLEGS in order to deliver a strong message to their audience including poise, voice, length, eye contact, gestures, and speed.

parkhailey05443 — 2025-05-02 00:00:08 UTC

If the speaker communicates their main idea successfully to the audience, it is considered a “good speech”. For the audience, the speech has to have a clear and accurate diction, which everyone can hear within gestures that support the speech to be more understandable and well-communicated. The text itself has to be written well, which attracts the audience’s attention, making the speech more impactful and less boring. Using rhetorical devices and adjusting the voice volume can be one of the methods to make a higher-quality speech.

2025-05-02 00:00:10 UTC

engaging with the audience and being able to express their argument and thoughts in a audible and coherent manner

2025-05-02 00:00:42 UTC

Eye contact instead of reading the script.

Speaking with a loud voice and stable tone, showing confidence.

Gestures that suit the topic of the speech

Having a good pace, not too fast or slow

2025-05-02 00:00:42 UTC

eye contact

confident voice

enough pace

gesture

volume

chimientiviviana05136 — 2025-05-02 00:01:22 UTC

- Eye contact with the audience to show engagement ( relates to pathos when trying to convey emotion to persuade or communicate with the listeners)

- Clear and confident voice, this helps when speaking publicly to deliver your message in your speech effectively for the audience to understand, and shows the audience you know what you’re talking about to be a good source of information

- Hand gestures when necessary, don’t overuse hand gestures, I would say use them when you are talking of actions to simply the meaning

2025-05-02 00:02:13 UTC

Using pathos and personal anecdotes.

I believe that the difference of speech and academic paper comes from the direct interaction with audiences. Then, it's highly crucial to stimulate listener's emotion to call an action, applying pathos skills. To show pathos, personal anecdotes can be effective tool, because personal anecdotes amuse audiences in comfortable atmosphere, eventually leading to the connection with speaker's message or emotion.

2025-05-02 00:04:33 UTC

A good speech could be both having balanced in the message and confidence.

These should be all balanced because even the message is very effective and persuasive, if the confidence lacks, most would not be able to understand about the message. Also even if the speaker has enough confidence but the messages is not persuasive, the audiences wouldn't be able to get engaged. While taking a speech, adding gestures and maintaining voice full of life would even deliver a strong message.

paulaswartz — 2025-05-02 00:06:22 UTC

Humor can help you gain the audience's attention and put them in a good mood.

2025-05-02 00:07:50 UTC

Confidence

Staying Calm

Eye contact

Clear pronunciation

Gesture

Facial expression

Standing tall (posture)

2025-05-02 00:07:51 UTC

The strategy of poise shows that you appear calm and confident, showing your natural confidence while speaking, at the same time avoiding distracting behaviors, such as flipping hair, etc.

The strategy of voice shows when you speak every word clearly at a suitable volume level

The strategy of life shows that when you express passion and emotion through voice

The strategy of eye contact shows when you connect visually with the audience, look each audience member

The strategy of gesture shows when you use hand gestures and move your body with an expressive face, and use it when necessary

The strategy of speed shows when you talk with appropriate speed, neither too fast or slow, use pauses for effect and emphasis