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Types of Speech Delivery

Impromptu speaking involves presenting a message without preparation, allowing for spontaneity but risking disorganization. Manuscript speaking repeats a written message exactly, maintaining attention on the page and conveying emotion properly but lacking engagement. Memorized speeches commit a written message to memory, enabling eye contact but risking losing place. Extemporaneous speaking uses a carefully planned outline to speak conversationally with flexibility while maintaining credibility and engagement.

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Types of Speech Delivery

Impromptu speaking involves presenting a message without preparation, allowing for spontaneity but risking disorganization. Manuscript speaking repeats a written message exactly, maintaining attention on the page and conveying emotion properly but lacking engagement. Memorized speeches commit a written message to memory, enabling eye contact but risking losing place. Extemporaneous speaking uses a carefully planned outline to speak conversationally with flexibility while maintaining credibility and engagement.

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Impromptu speaking is the presentation of a short message without advanced preparation

The advantage of this kind of speaking is that it’s spontaneous and responsive in an animated group
context. The disadvantage is that the speaker is given little or no time to contemplate the central theme
of their message. As a result, the message may be disorganized and difficult for listeners to follow.

Impromptu speeches are generally most successful when they are brief and focus on a single point.

Manuscript Speeches

Manuscript speaking is the word-for-word iteration of a written message. In a manuscript speech, the
speaker maintains their attention on the printed page except when using presentation aids.

The advantage to reading from a manuscript is the exact repetition of original words. This can be
extremely important in some circumstances. A manuscript speech may also be appropriate at a more
formal affair (like a funeral), when your speech must be said exactly as written in order to convey the
proper emotion the situation deserves.

However, there are costs involved in manuscript speaking. First, it’s typically an uninteresting way to
present. Unless the speaker has rehearsed the reading as a complete performance animated with vocal
expression and gestures (the presentation tends to be dull. Keeping one’s eyes glued to the script
prevents eye contact with the audience.

However, success in this medium depends on two factors:

The speaker is already an accomplished public speaker who has learned to use a conversational tone
while delivering a prepared script, and

The speech is written in a style that sounds conversational.

Memorized Speeches

Memorized speaking is reciting a written message that the speaker has committed to memory. When it
comes to speeches, memorization can be useful when the message needs to be exact and the speaker
doesn’t want to be confined by notes.

The advantage to memorization is that it enables the speaker to maintain eye contact with the audience
throughout the speech. Being free of notes means that you can move freely around the stage and use
your hands to make gestures. If your speech uses presentation aids, this freedom is even more of an
advantage.

Memorization, however, can be tricky. First, if you lose your place and start trying to ad lib, the contrast
in your style of delivery will alert your audience that something is wrong. If you go completely blank
during the presentation, it will be extremely difficult to find your place and keep going.

Extemporaneous Speeches
Extemporaneous speaking is the presentation of a carefully planned and rehearsed speech, spoken in a
conversational manner using brief notes.

Speaking extemporaneously has some advantages. It promotes the likelihood that you, the speaker, will
be perceived as knowledgeable and credible since you know the speech well enough that you don’t
need to read it. In addition, your audience is likely to pay better attention to the message because it is
engaging both verbally and nonverbally.

By using notes rather than a full manuscript the extemporaneous speaker can establish and maintain
eye contact with the audience and assess how well they are understanding the speech as it progresses.
It also allows flexibility; you are working from the strong foundation of an outline, but if you need to
delete, add, or rephrase something at the last minute or to adapt to your audience, you can do so. The
outline also helps you be aware of main ideas vs. subordinate ones.

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