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Your Task. Search online for a speech that was delivered by a significant businessperson or a well-known political figure. Consider watching President Barack Obama’s 2013 inaugura- tion speech or Steve Jobs’s “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish” 2005 commencement speech at Stanford University on YouTube. Write an e-mail or memo report to your instructor critiquing the speech in terms of the following:
a. Effectiveness of the introduction, body, and conclusion
b. Evidence of effective overall organization
c. Use of verbal signposts to create coherence
d. Emphasis of two to four main points
e. Effectiveness of supporting facts (use of examples, statistics, quotations, and so forth)
f. Focus on audience needs and benefits
g. Enthusiasm for the topic
h. Effectiveness of visual aids (if applicable)
be sure to do the following:
Include the name of the speech, speaker, and web address of speech.
You are to write a memo report. You are to have an **introductory paragraph of the speech (4-5 sentences) and you may use bullet points to answer each of the critiques regarding the speech.
Your final paragraph should state your impressions of the speech based on the eight critiques (letters a-h).