ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the most important components of nonverbal communication for public speaking: the speaker's body and the speaker's voice. In public speaking, the delivery is where the rubber meets the road or where all your prior research and practice have the opportunity to make us, and our abilities, create great results. There are several different delivery styles we can choose from, depending on a number of variables such as the purpose of our speech, the subject, the occasion, and our audience. Memorized speeches are usually written out first and then committed to memory and delivered. An impromptu speech is one that is developed on the spur of the moment. A manuscript speech is one that is completely written out in advance. In extemporaneous deliveries, the speaker knows what he is going to say in the introduction, body, and conclusion of the speech but decides on the exact wording of the speech at the moment of delivery.
