What concept or concepts from the class do you thing were the most helpful in preparing your speeches?

The organization patterns were very helpful to me since I have a hard time especially with something like public speaking where I don’t speak in front of large groups very often and I’m just unorganized. It taught me how to organize my speeches depending on the effect I would want it to have. It showed me that speeches are very different from regular conversation where you just talk back and forth, but in a speech you have to get from A to B. So, yeah the organizational patterns were probably the most helpful but I also think that practicing your speech was very important also. I have asthma so a lot of times I wouldn’t want to stress out my throat by saying my speech out loud but just by looking over the power point and outline and thinking about what you were going to say when you got to this point and stuff helped a lot with visual cues when I gave my speech in front of class and actually made me remember things that I forgot during the speech.