Analyze your chosen speech as an essay about the writer’s effectiveness considering the context in which and audience to which they were delivered.

Assignment Type: Written Paper, APA format

Assignment Length: 3-4 pages (not including cover page or reference page)

Select a famous speech to analyze from the website below.

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/ (Links to an external site.)
Links to an external site.

** Try to avoid those that have been done time and time again 🙂

Analyze your chosen speech as an essay about the writer’s effectiveness considering the context in which and audience to which they were delivered. Essays should identify and explain the strategies that the speaker deliberately chose while crafting the speech. Please reference the textbook at least (3) times in your analysis.

Textbook: https://alg.manifoldapp.org/projects/exploring-public-speaking

Consider the following:

What makes the speech so remarkable?

How did the speakers word choices evoke a response from the audience?

Did the speaker use gestures? Did the speaker use clear tone? Did the speaker use vocal fillers?

Did the speaker use a structure? If so, what was the type?

How did the speech impact you and why did you select this speech

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