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Communication skills allow you to understand and be understood by others. These can include but are not limited to effectively communicating ideas to others, actively listening in conversations, giving and receiving critical feedback and public speaking.

Communication skills are abilities you use when giving and receiving different kinds of information. Communication skills involve listening, speaking, observing and empathizing. It is also helpful to understand the differences in how to communicate through face-to-face interactions, phone conversations and digital communications, like email and social media, and giving speeches. There are different types of communication skills you can learn and practice to help you become an effective communication.

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Def: The aim of a persuasive speech is to inform, educate and convince or motivate an audience to do something.

What is persuade? --> cause (someone) to believe something, especially after a sustained effort; convince.

Persuasive speeches are there to persuade the audience that an opinion expressed by the speaker is the right one. Most people, in an attempt to persuade the audience that their point of view is the right one, use solid facts to back up their argument. This is one of the best ways to make sure that your persuasive speech does the trick, which means that using research and statistics to develop your argument is always more likely to make people come to your side.

PERSUASIVE SPEECH

Demonstrative Speech

It can be consider a type of informative speech due to the fact that the purpose of a demonstrative speech is to educate the audience on something. The big difference is that an informative speeches normally do not include actual demonstrations.

If you give a talk on how to start a blog, how to write a cover letter, or even how to make money on the Internet, these can be considered demonstrative speeches. You not only talk about a certain thing, you also demonstrate on how to do it.

Def: An informative speech is one that one that intends to educate the audience on a particular topic.

People who give informative speeches are there to present the audience with new information on a particular subject.

Instead, they rely on educational information, facts, and various data so that the audience actually learns something

INFORMATIVE SPEECH

Speech

Speech is the ability to speak or the act of speaking. A speech is a formal talk which someone gives to an audience.

Def: a formal discussion on a particular topic in a public meeting or legislative assembly, in which opposing arguments are put forward

As a general rule, in a debate, both sides get equal time to discuss the issue and explain why their view of the issue is the right one. Debates are somewhat different than persuasive speeches because you aren’t necessarily there to get the other side to switch to your side; instead you are there, in essence, to justify why you believe a certain thing.

Debates are arguments that have rules and regardless of which style you choose, each side receives the topic then has a certain amount of time to prepare to present it. Debate teams develop very valuable skills, including research skills, public speaking skills, leadership skills, initiative skills, developing grace under pressure, critical thinking skills, and developing arguments that are both logical and sound

Def: A Special Occasion (or ceremonial, commemorative, or epideictic) speech should pay tribute or praise a person, an institution, an event, idea, or place.

Speeches that don’t fall into any other category are usually classified as special occasion speeches and these can include speaker introduction speeches, designed to be short but interesting and to introduce an upcoming speaker; tribute speeches, which are designed to pay tribute to someone either dead or alive; and award acceptance speeches, which are meant to thank someone for an award and describe what the award means to you.

"I Have a Dream" is a public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963, in which he called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States. Delivered to over 250,000 civil rights supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., the speech was a defining moment of the civil rights movement.

SPECIAL OCCASIONS SPEECH