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1. Demographics are helpful in making an audience analysis. This includes age, gender, religion, sexual orientation, racial, ethnic and cultural background, group membership.

2. Some of the main items to consider when Critically Analyzing a speech are: preparation, pronunciation, practice, enunciation, projection, pace, expression, eye contact, time, visual aids, gestures and subject.

3. Apprehension is normal when giving a speech. You must learn to turn this into a positive nervousness where you are no longer victimized by it; instead you are vitalized by it.

4. Techniques for reducing apprehension are: acquiring speaking experience, prepare, prepare, prepare, thinking positively, using the power of visualization, knowing that nervousness it not visible and don’t expect perfection.

5. A good outline speaking outline is used to jog a speaker’s memory during the presentation of a speech. The outline must follow the visual framework used in the preparation outline, make sure the outline is legible, keep the outline as brief as possible and giving yourself cues for delivering the speech.

6. First you must pick a topic, then you must research this topic. Free writing will be completed, followed by a speaking or brief outline. This outline will be utilized to write drafts of the speech. Once the speech is finalized then you must create notecards that will serve as memory joggers when you are giving your speech. After that you must practice, practice, practice. While you are presenting your speech make sure you use gestures that flow naturally from your feelings, maintain eye contact with your audience, concentrate on projecting your voice, and enunciating. Learn to turn your nerves into positive energy.

7. The steps to problem solving are:

a. Define the problem – You must know what exactly you are trying to solve.
b. Analyze the problem – Once the problem has been defined you must now analyze it.
c. Establish criteria for

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