Speech Critique

[Name of the institute]Speech Critique

Introduction

Learning and development has long been associated with human beings. In order to upgrade ourselves and to improve our knowledge we indulge in a lot of activities to improve our learning. These activities include research, writing, reading assessing and interoperating. One of the activities that students do is of critiquing. The aim of this paper is also to present the critique of a speech. The speech that I have chosen for the purpose of this assignment is by Pamela Spiro.

Pamela Spiro is professionally an accomplished writer. She also has won awards for the poems that she wrote. She is suffering from a mental disorder of schizophrenia. Currently she is working on a book with her twin sister. The book is about their lives and the impact that the disorder has caused on their lives. Recently, she gave her speech on the same topic from which she is suffering that is schizophrenia. She gave her speech for an NGO that held seminar for children who are suffering from schizophrenia. My cousin works in that NGO. She asked me and my other cousins to coordinate and help her out in arranging this seminar. There, in that seminar I heard the speech of Pamela. So, for this assignment this speech would be best as I can recall most of the content and other factors of the speech as it is freshly stored in my mind.

Discussion

The situation in which Pamela Spiro delivered her speech is of a seminar which was arranged for the psychologists as well as persons suffering from schizophrenia. Her speech was also about this subject. So the subject of the speech and the interest of the audience are similar. When delivering the speech to a particular audience it is indispensable to choose the topic that is of the interest of the audience rather the interest of the speaker. She began her speech by declaring that she is among them as she is also suffering from this mental disorder of schizophrenia. Declaring this truth helped her in forming a connection with the audience. When people think that they are with someone who is like them they take interest in what they do and what they say. This also helped her to deliver what she wanted to convey to the audience.

After declaring that she is suffering from the same disorder just like them she talked ...