Evaluating Speeches: Visual Aids

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"Now let's talk about visual aides. Did the speaker use visual aides and did he use them or she use them correctly? First of all, visual aides are not necessary in all speeches, but I have seen many, many speeches where people were talking about statistics, they were talking about figures, they were talking about information that since I'm not an audible learner, I couldn't quite comprehend, and I was really, really hoping that they might have had a chart or a graph, or drawn a picture for me to take a look at so I could see what they were talking about. So were there visual aides? Did they need to have visual aides? Or maybe they even had visual aides and they really didn't even need them. Maybe they had a Power Point presentation in which they had clips of every single thing they said, and that was totally unnecessary. So when you're talking about having visual aides, you also want to talk about how did they use them? Did they become distracting? Did they become a hindrance? Did they do things like block the person's face? How well were they manipulated?"