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How do you all do it? I'm on my 4th or 5th speech of the semester and these are my worst study time blackholes. I have to memorize every word and sentence of my speech in order. Do you learn to wing it by the start of the second year?
 
I make up note cards with key points on them. I practice my speech enough in which I feel confident with the speech; in that I can say it almost straight through. However, I don't memorize every word. Each time I give the speech, it's a little different.
 
What kind of speech?

ehhh..since I like to hear myself talk.. public speaking has never been an issue.. gift from my dad.

I don't think anyone should memorize a speech.. but rather tell a story one paragraph at a time... Completely understand the material you're giving a speech about.. then tell a story, best you can.
 
ZpackSux said:
What kind of speech?

ehhh..since I like to hear myself talk.. public speaking has never been an issue.. gift from my dad.

I don't think anyone should memorize a speech.. but rather tell a story one paragraph at a time... Completely understand the material you're giving a speech about.. then tell a story, best you can.
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I certainly understand the material. The hours of research always hammers it into my head. My mind just goes blank when I'm in front of the class and all complex thinking and comprehension goes out the window... except for the ability to recite memorized junk. 🙁
 
ethyl said:
How do you all do it? I'm on my 4th or 5th speech of the semester and these are my worst study time blackholes. I have to memorize every word and sentence of my speech in order. Do you learn to wing it by the start of the second year?
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it does get easier after the first year... a simple drug speach or counseling can be "winged." You are more comfortable by then and know that your pretty much going to do ok whether you stress and memorize or not, + you now know alot of you classmates so that always helps.

If you know the material. Memorize the flow of the speach. That is what I have a hard time with when I get in front of people. I know what should be said about the topic, but the order gets all jumbled and I'm afraid I will miss an entire subheading. So I make sure I get the order down and then the facts will come.
 
ethyl said:
I certainly understand the material. The hours of research always hammers it into my head. My mind just goes blank when I'm in front of the class and all complex thinking and comprehension goes out the window... except for the ability to recite memorized junk. 🙁
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This isn't about the speech...you may have a public speaking phobia....

Inderal.
 
You have to love to speak in front of people...

It's a high for me... I love to talk to people..get their attention...make them laugh. You're the focal point..all eyes on you... you're it. How can you not love it!!!

One of my goals is to get enough funnies and materials together for a 30 minute stand up routine pertaining to pharmacy..and do a pharmacy comedy/CE for pharmacists at ASHP midyear.

If y'all ever see this happen, you'll know it's me...

:meanie:
 
ZpackSux said:
You have to love to speak in front of people...

It's a high for me... I love to talk to people..get their attention...make them laugh. You're the focal point..all eyes on you... you're it. How can you not love it!!!

One of my goals is to get enough funnies and materials together for a 30 minute stand up routine pertaining to pharmacy..and do a pharmacy comedy/CE for pharmacists at ASHP midyear.

If y'all ever see this happen, you'll know it's me...

:meanie:
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That's how it was for me in speech class in undergrad! I was always able to get good quality laughs out of people and have 100% attention with nobody sleeping. Hell, I had everyone thinking I lit up a $100 bill in flames right in front of them (it was a stock trading speech. 😳 ). Teacher didn't like that stunt. :/ But now in pharmacy school, we have to follow specific guidelines... no more than 6 words per line on a page with no more than 6 lines, a minute per slide, bare minimum pictures, profesionalism blah blah blah. It's a very uptight environment.
 
alwaystired said:
it does get easier after the first year... a simple drug speach or counseling can be "winged." You are more comfortable by then and know that your pretty much going to do ok whether you stress and memorize or not, + you now know alot of you classmates so that always helps.

If you know the material. Memorize the flow of the speach. That is what I have a hard time with when I get in front of people. I know what should be said about the topic, but the order gets all jumbled and I'm afraid I will miss an entire subheading. So I make sure I get the order down and then the facts will come.
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Ahh that's what it is. The flow... I noticed in some of my speeches so far I've mentioned something out of place and I end up missing entire portions of the speech too. Certainly a downside of memorizing word by word.
 
I usually don't even write speeches. I just come up with a few points and go from there.

Once I just came up with an entire speech out of thin air.

During my second year, we had to come up with a 15 minute minimum speech about an innovative pharmacy marketing plan in our business course. We only had about 10 minutes down in our presentation about implementing an Appalachian asthma clinic. So, with about 1 hour before the speech, it was decided that I would go up there as the "pilot" patient and waste 5 minutes by babbling on about nothing. When taking pictures of my group in a pharmacy a few days prior, I took a few goofball pictures of me shoving an inhaler in my nose. I worked these into the powerpoint as a way that the pharmacists showed me how to properly use an inhaler.

When it came time to go up there and talk, I went up there and BS'd about how I used to be a Madonna tribute singer and I lost my career because during the middle of Material Girl I had an asthma attack, but ever since I got in with the new pharmacy asthma clinic, I've been able to attempt a comeback. I did it with a THICK Appalachian accent. It was pure improv, I was just going pure stream-of-consciousness. I had people laughing their asses off that it wasted a good minute alone. By the time we were done, the speech was 20+ minutes. It was so convincing that the teacher gave us the highest grade in the class and I had about a dozen classmates come up to me and tell me I should be on stage.

Ever since then I've wished I went to film school. That was the funnest 5 minutes of my pharmacy school career.

I'll try to dig up the powerpoint for you guys. I emailed it to myself like 1.5 years ago right before the presentation.
 
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I usually don't even write speeches. I just come up with a few points and go from there.

Once I just came up with an entire speech out of thin air.

During my second year, we had to come up with a 15 minute minimum speech about an innovative pharmacy marketing plan in our business course. We only had about 10 minutes down in our presentation about implementing an Appalachian asthma clinic. So, with about 1 hour before the speech, it was decided that I would go up there as the "pilot" patient and waste 5 minutes by babbling on about nothing. When taking pictures of my group in a pharmacy a few days prior, I took a few goofball pictures of me shoving an inhaler in my nose. I worked these into the powerpoint as a way that the pharmacists showed me how to properly use an inhaler.

When it came time to go up there and talk, I went up there and BS'd about how I used to be a Madonna tribute singer and I lost my career because during the middle of Material Girl I had an asthma attack, but ever since I got in with the new pharmacy asthma clinic, I've been able to attempt a comeback. I did it with a THICK Appalachian accent. It was pure improv, I was just going pure stream-of-consciousness. I had people laughing their asses off that it wasted a good minute alone. By the time we were done, the speech was 20+ minutes. It was so convincing that the teacher gave us the highest grade in the class and I had about a dozen classmates come up to me and tell me I should be on stage.

Ever since then I've wished I went to film school. That was the funnest 5 minutes of my pharmacy school career.

I'll try to dig up the powerpoint for you guys. I emailed it to myself like 1.5 years ago right before the presentation.
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Only people in WV would find that humorous
 
You'll get used to it, Ethyl. UF makes you do presentations ad nauseum to get you ready. When you get out in rotations, you have to give presentations all the time. And they won't be in front of friendly class mates, either.

I'm not nervous about it anymore at all. Tomorrow, I have to give a smoking cessation lecture to a bunch of vets trying to quit. I suppose I'd better finish my power point soon.
 
That sucks that you have to do so many speeches. I thought my school was bad with two (a 10min and a 50min with a partner).
 
It definitely gets better. I only had one speech this term! Plus poster presentation later on, but that's not exactly the same...
 
Save the formats for both the PBD presentations and the Practicum presentations. They make good templates for rotation presentations.
 
at first i thought this was a generic speech-phobia thread until i found all those guidelines and stuff... ugly as hell... yeah, speaking with so many guidelines can get scary because you'll get beaten to the ground for making those technical errors...

the simplest way may be to structure and memorize... but anyone can get blank, no matter how many times they've done the same speech before...

but speaking in front of people is like lying to little children that the next shot you're about to give them won't hurt, even if it does... it gets easier the more you do it...
 
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