What are the criteria for a good topic, and why are they important?

What will be an ideal response?

- Importance to speaker: speaker interest is required to motivate listener interest.
- Interest to audience: listeners must be motivated to listen.
- Worthy of listeners' time: value to listeners must be evident to them even when the speech is finished.
- Appropriate in scope: it must be possible to cover the topic in the time available.
- Appropriate for oral delivery: listeners must be able to follow the speech on first hearing.
- Appropriate to the rhetorical situation: topic must fit the occasion.
- Clarity: speaker and listeners must know what the speech is about.