Types of Courtesy Speeches:
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According to University of Pittsburgh, there are essentially three types of speeches public speakers use to influence their audience. These are: Informative, Persuasive, and Special Occasion.
Informative speaking generally centers on talking about people, events, processes, places, or things.
Persuasive speaking is the type of speaking that most people engage in the most. This type of speech can involve everything from arguing about politics to talking about what to eat for dinner.
A Special Occasion (or ceremonial, commemorative, or epideictic) speech should pay tribute or praise a person, an institution, an event, idea, or place.
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