What Is Public Speaking? Professional Writing

Public speaking is a form of speaking to a group of people in an informative, influential manner. A public speaker should target the expectations and motivations of the audience and clearly state the main purpose of speech. The purpose of public speaking can include but not limited to simply informing, to motivating people to garher together, to simply telling stories and to entertaining the audience. Good speakers should drag the audience into the speech by changing the emotions and view of the target group. In order to be able to drag the group from the beginning to the end of the speech, the speaker should be into the speech, creating spontaneous ideas and tools to attract the attention of the audience. The tools and ideas of a good speech should be changed regarding to the type of the speech. The speech can be motivational, related to leadership/personal development, business, customer services, large group communication, and mass communication.History

Public speaking dates back to Ancient Greek. The researchers have shown that human being has always urged to communicate to the mass groups, in order to pass the political and social issues. In the Ancient Greek, public speaking was a professional occupation and the speakers talked on behalf of their clients who wanted to succeed in politics, in court or in social life such as ceremonial and religious expression, discussing the daily life events. The public speaking was an art for the people of ancient world since it was the only way influencing people and addressing the political and social views. Therefore, the training of a public speaker was very important. Their success and the influence of the people are still very effective and the speakers like Aristotle, Quintilian and Cicero have been still studied. Up to….....