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Strong Public Speaking Skills
1. What are some of your stronger public speaking skills? List and explain several examples.
After completing the Demonstrative Speech, I feel that I had several strong public speaking skills. The first I would like to discuss, is my introduction. My introduction included an attention getter, reason to listen, thesis, and transition to the first main point. The attention getter I used was a summary of blood pressure from ATI’s Nursing Education skills module on vital signs. The summary included the definition of blood pressure, as well as a description of systolic and diastolic values. I used these terms throughout the course of my speech, so it was beneficial to introduce the audience to these terms in the beginning of my speech.

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