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Simply put, speech is what you say in a presentation. A speech targeted to the audience is essential for a presentation’s success. Consider J. Robert Oppenheimer’s early lectures given at California-Berkeley in 1929. Only 25 years old, but already well known for his work on the quantum theory, Oppenheimer began his teaching that first semester with a class full of eager graduate students. Halfway through the semester, though, the number of students registered for his course had dropped to one.
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Alley, M. (2013). Chapter 2 Speech: The Words You Say. In: The Craft of Scientific Presentations. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8279-7_2
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