I had the perfect speech. Every supporting point, every word, perfect down to the shocking conclusion; there’s no way I could lose with this. Every word memorized and ideas backed up on note cards, I strode towards the podium and as the powerpoint started, launched into the masterpiece that would define my semester.
The Power of Research: How Knowing your Audience can Make or Break the Perfect Presentation
September 30, 2012 By
As a teacher of, among many other things, public speaking, I’ve come across a thousand speech topics from my students that range from the utterly banal to the improbable and illegal. These students also have increasingly divergent opinions on the same things, right down to what is a proper way to do their research, which are usually wrong.