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Chapter 32: Practicing Your Speech
Key Concepts
32-1 Demonstrate the ability to make improvements through practice.
32-2 Prepare speaking notes.
32-3 Avoid practice pitfalls.
Suggested Activities and Exercises
“Practice Makes Perfect”
This assignment, developed by Ayres, D. and Ayres, J. (1999), “helps students develop their
Speech Lab
If your campus has a speech lab, have your students go to the lab and practice their speech in
Speech Notes
Once again using Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address,” have students create effective speech notes
Tests
Correct answers are marked with an asterisk. The places in the Compact Handbook where the
information was presented are shown in brackets.
True/False Questions
Multiple Choice Questions
5. The three stages of practice are _____.
6. In order to elicit useful feedback in the practice stage, you should ask _____.
Essay and Short Answer Questions
7. Describe some of the ways to format effective speech notes. [33b.2 Checklist]