How to Write a Speech

CHOOSE A TOPIC Relevant Consider audience Passionate about Find a reason! Delivery Put your heart in it!!

REASONSGood Reasons Bad Reasons• To inspire • to instruct• to rally support• to lead to action• noble purposes.

• to merely sound off

• to feed a speaker's ego,

• to flatter • to intimidate • to shame

SPEECH ANALYSIS

Analyze the following:

Emphasized Phrases by Repeating at the Beginning of Sentences.

Repeat Key “Theme” Words Throughout Your Speech.

Appropriate Quotations or Allusions.

Use specific examples to “ground” your arguments

Use Metaphors to Highlight Contrasting Concepts

DELIVERY Choose your words wisely.

Comfortable and open.

Play with your intonation.

One message.

Natural - not read off of a paper

Do not memorize it.

TIPS Brainstorm (Make a list of at least three main points you want to make)

Start off with a strong introduction.

(getting personal and showing your human side)

Use inclusive terms for individuals. (our, we, us, the class, the nation, we teenagers).

Start off with your strongest point.

Refer to your audience as “you”

Insist a lot on your important points.

End with a firm conclusion.