Guidelines for Effective Delivery

Page 193

Everything from selecting a topic and researching information to outlining your presentation is a prerequisite to the big moment: actually delivering your speech.

Everything from selecting a topic and researching information to outlining your presentation is a prerequisite to the big moment: actually delivering your speech. In this section, we’ll take a fresh look at a point that we’ve emphasized throughout this book: how you say something is as important as what you say. That is, audiences receive information not only from the actual words that you speak but also through two channels of nonverbal communication: the vocal and the visual. Let’s see how these nonverbal channels play out in your speech.