Speech Analysis

A distinguished television commentator inspires Harvard graduates
This issue’s Speech Analysis takes a look at a speech designed to challenge its audience. By stating a need and then asking some penetrating questions about how it can best be met — and by sharing an illustrative example from his own life experience — newsman Jim Lehrer made his audience think. And making your audience think is the first step toward making it act. So you could say that that particular presentation was an informative speech, a motivational speech and an advocacy speech all at the same time.