Question

Name and describe the four types of delivery. Give a comparison between two types (your choice). Of the two Indicate which you think would enable a speaker to be most effective and tell why or why no? State if you feel it is important for a speaker to rehearse the presentation/speech before delivery; if so state why, if not state why not?

In manuscript presentations, speakers read their remarks word for word from a prepared statement. Manuscript speaking is common at annual company meetings, conventions, and press conferences. Unfortunately, few experiences are as boring as the average manuscript presentation. Novice speakers often try to conceal their nervousness at facing a large audience by reading from a script—and turn into lifeless drones when doing so. Because most speakers are not trained at reading aloud, their delivery is halting and jerky. Even worse, a nervous speaker who relies too heavily on a manuscript can make serious mistakes without even knowing it. Management consultant Marilyn Landis describes one

Memorized Presentations

If speaking from a script is bad, trying to memorize that script is even worse. You have probably been subjected to a memorized sales pitch from a telemarketer or door-to-door salesperson. If so, you know that the biggest problem of a memorized presentation—one recited word for word from memory—is that it sounds memorized. Speakers who recite their presentations from memory often fail to incorporate natural nonverbal expressions or demonstrations of emotion in their delivery. As a result, their speeches sound rehearsed to the point of almost being robotic. It might seem that memorizing a presentation would help alleviate your nervousness, but, in fact, memorization almost guarantees that stage fright will become a serious problem. Speakers who devote large amounts of time to simply learning the words of a talk are asking for trouble. During the presentation, they must focus on remembering what comes next instead of getting involved in the meaning of their remarks. It is difficult to recover from forgetting a portion of a memorized speech without the mistake being obvious to the audience.Sometimes it is necessary to memorize parts of a presentation, because referring to notes at a critical moment can diminish your credibility. A salesperson is usually expected to know a product’s major features: how much horsepower it has, how much it costs, or how many copies per minute it delivers. A personnel manager might be expected to know, without referring to a brochure, the value of employee life insurance (if each employee’s benefit is the same) and how much employees contribute to the premium. A coworker would look foolish at a retirement dinner if she said, “Everyone knows about Charlie’s contributions …” and then had to pause to refer to her notes. In such situations, it is recommended to memorize only the essential parts of a presentation

Extemporaneous Presentations

An extemporaneous presentation is planned and rehearsed but not memorized word for word. When you speak extemporaneously, you learn your key points and become familiar with the support you will use to back them up. In other words, you practice the big picture but let the specific words come naturally during your delivery. If you prepare carefully and practice your presentation several times with a friend, a family member, or even a group of coworkers or subordinates, you will have a good chance of delivering an extemporaneous talk that seems spontaneous—and maybe even effortless. Almost every presentation you plan—a sales presentation, a talk at the local high school, a progress report to a management review board, a training lecture, an annual report to employees or the board of directors—should be delivered extemporaneously.

Impromptu Presentations

Sooner or later you will be asked to give an impromptu presentation—an unexpected, off-the-cuff talk. A customer might stop in your office and ask you to describe the new model you will have next spring. At a celebration dinner, you might be asked to “say a few words.” A manager might ask you to “give us some background on the problem” or to “fill us in on your progress.” You may suddenly discover at a weekly meeting that your subordinates are unaware of a process they need to know about to understand the project you are preparing to explain.

Giving an impromptu talk need not be as threatening as it seems. Most of the time, you will be asked to speak about a subject within your expertise—such as a current project, a problem you have solved, or a technical aspect of your training—which means you have thought about the topic before. Another reassuring fact is that most listeners will not expect perfection in unrehearsed remarks.

Your impromptu presentations will be most effective if you follow these guidelines.⁴

  

Answer 1

Mainly there are four types of delivery which I would like to discuss. The four types of delivery are memorized manuscript extemporaneous and impromptu they are being used indifferent aspect of delivery or speech.

I would like to compare between memorized and manuscript.

Memorised: the speaking of memorize style will be one the script has been committed to memory and recited to the audience word for word. For example if you are delivering any speech aur presentation you have to memorize all the things then you have to deliver without looking in to means all the things and words has been memorized.

Manuscript: manuscript can be described as a sign of style. In manuscript speech is written and the speaker read it word to word for the public and audience it can be a handwritten in a paper but nowadays it is not being written in paper but can be written computer based style like PowerPoint or Excel etc where the speaker just read it and deliver it to the public.

I think manuscript will be the best to deliver a speech in which the speaker can connect to the audience in a good and extraordinary manner where it is not too to memorize the speech are the content to deliver where we can make mistakes if you have not memorize it properly and can lose his confidence at the time of presentation if there will be a large crowd then definitely a strong memorable speech can also be a blunder for the public to listen so we should be very much careful if we are following memorize method to deliver a speech but I will say that to follow manuskript method so that you will be not worry to memorize but can deliver the presentation why just looking at your PowerPoint aur Excel which are being used in a very vast manner nowadays and by that way you will connect to the audience in a good manner and they will make a good eye contact with you you will just focus on the matter and the style of presentation all the content will be in front of you and just you will have to look upon it and deliver it which I personally lot of time following this method of manuscript which is the most renowned method being used in any organisation right now.

As you have asked regarding rehearsing of the presentation before giving it so I must say that you should properly do a practice rehearse it and I must say try to do this in front of crowd or mirror so that you can feel your gestures and body expressions eye contact positions very well and how to connect and make it strong if you are lacking something and rectify your mistakes before you go to deliver it on the spot before the public which is going to listen you and understand it properly.

Talking about the impromptu method of speech which are deliver without preparing or you can say that it has to be deliver on spot like after receiving some medal or awards giving votes of thanks acknowledgement or some other onspot speeches that is also a better method in which you need not to prepare and just go and deliver it on spot but we can't be having so much content sometime if you have to deliver it in front of much crowd so you have to follow manuscript method there.

Further if you have any query or doubt you can ask me I will be very much thankful to help you again.