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by Logan Scisco
The first ninety seconds of an extemporaneous speech are very important because it introduces the audience to the topic that you have selected to speak on. Not only do you need an affective attention getting device (AGD), which has been written about extensively on this website and others like it on the Internet, but you also need to provide sufficient background on your question. A mistake that inexperienced competitors make is that they jump directly from their AGD to the question, completely ignoring the fact that they need to give the audience some background information on their topic. This week’s strategy piece will explain how you can provide sufficient background information on your topic and avoid this problem.