Chapter 21 Chapter 4 Several Methods Usually Used in Speeches

This method really needs a little explanation in a public speaking book, because you might get it wrong, public reading is not public speaking.But there are a lot of people who have benefited from it, so we have to talk about "read speech" - sorry, it's just a misused name. Of course there are many situations—say, in a sitting of Congress, or in front of a prudent crowd, on a poignant issue, or at the commemoration of a historic event—then the first order of business is to use precise language. Expressing a point of view is the consensus of the "speaker" and all those involved - using language that is not misleading and does not misquote quotes or examples.Under such circumstances, oratory was reluctantly pushed aside, the speech was solemnly taken out of the big pocket of the new clothes, and everyone sat upright, hoping that the so-called speech would not be long and stinky.Words may be golden, but the eyes of the audience are so easily misled, and it has been declared that it is dangerous to stray too far from the harbor of the speech to lead the audience on a pleasant sea voyage.

A big trouble in this "big case" is the writer - for he was chosen not for his eloquence, but because his grandfather fought in some campaign, or his constituents sent him Congress, or some of his other endowed talents in other non-oratorical areas set him apart. It's like choosing a surgeon based on how well he can play golf.A great man must be able to attract the attention of the audience, because the greatness of the great man makes the audience more willing to listen to him with admiration, and even when he just repeats the text endlessly, the audience may still be interested.But if the manuscript is put aside, the effect of this speech will definitely be more obvious!

The pulpit is really the most common place to read speeches—the pulpit is the last place where there is no room for error these days.No wonder many pastors prefer polite manners to fanaticism—let them choose: few of them are persuading the masses to accept their message.They use precise and beautiful language, but they lack power. There are four motives that lead a man to read his speeches or sermons: (1) Laziness is the most common.That's enough already said.Not even heaven can make a lazy man more efficient. (2) My memory is not good, so I can hardly say anything without the manuscript.But when he read the script he couldn't speak again, so he was caught in the painful contradiction - but no one has the right to go all out to exercise the memory - and then said that he had a poor memory before failing.Poor memory is usually an excuse rather than a reason.

(3) The time is too tight to write the manuscript well.It happens—but not every week.Your own time is more flexible than you think.Motivation 3 is often related to motivation 1. (4) Think the speech is too important to take the risk of leaving it out.But if precise use of words, refinement of style, and logic of thought are all crucial, and the preacher must write the whole sermon, is the message itself less important and requires no extra effort to improve How is the information conveyed?It is disrespectful to the assembly to put the representation of the content above the content itself.A sermon must reach the hearts of the hearers—when the speaker cannot deliver with the passion and force that he should, when he can only repeat what he thought of hours or weeks ago, the effect of the speech is only Halfway, it's like champagne without the bubbles.The reading speaker's eyes are fixed on the script, and he cannot give the audience helpful facial expressions.If the actors hold the script and read their lines aloud, how long will it take to read the play?Imagine Patrick Henry reading his famous speeches; Peter the Hermit, speech script in hand, encouraging the Crusaders; Napoleon, always staring at a few pages in his hand, addressing troops at the foot of the pyramids; or Jesus reading his sermon on the Holy Mount!These speakers are so familiar with what they are going to say and are so well prepared that they don't have to refer to a script or show that they are prepared.If a thing requires thought and speech, it is more sacred than ever.Call an article by its proper name, but never a speech.Perhaps the holiest thing to do is to pray to God.If you've ever heard an original prayer read word for word, you know how superficial it is.

Whatever the theory may be about proofreading, the fact remains that it is ineffective in practice.Do everything possible to avoid doing this.