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How to Write an Amazing Speech for Any Occasion
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Amazing Speech for Any Occasion
1. Prepare on your:
- Kind of speech - What is this speech for?
- Audience - Who are they and what are their interests?
- Impact - What do I want my audience to feel?
- Point of View - What are my perspectives on this topic?
3. Present with Passion. Don't just stand the entire speech, deliver it with some compassion, humor, and style.
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Simple Framework to Follow When Giving a Speech
- Attention-Getting Introduction - Use something that will quickly grab your audience. A quote, story, question, or statistic
- Preview - Tell your listeners what's coming in your speech.
- Points 1 Through 3 - branch out your topic and include some evidences or expert citations for it to resonate.
- Recap - A short review of what you told them.
- Q&A -This is to help you deal with anything that comes up from your audience and be able to conclude on your own terms.
- Closer - End with a stirring statement that's memorable
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What is a speech?
Just like essays, speeches have three main sections:
- Introduction
- Body
- Conclusion
However, unlike essays, speeches must be written to ...
Tips on How to Write a Speech Essay
- Determine the type of speech you're writing. Is it to inform people? Persuade? Entertain?
- Craft a creative speech introduction with an attention-grabber, statement on your topic and a strong transition to the body.
- Determine the flow of the body of the speech depending on the information consisting the body.
- Write a memorable speech conclusion by restating the main points and ending with a memorable speech.
- Address the key objectives by using some clever quotes, inspirational stories, meaningful transitions and a good ending.
Types of Speeches
- Informative and Instructional Speech - Used to inform people about a certain topic, event or area of knowledge.
- Persuasive Speech - Used to persuade people to join one side of an argument.
- Entertaining Speech - Used to entertain audience, and topics may not be practical.
- Special Occasion Speech - Used in special occasions to entertain or inform audience such as graduation, toasts, etc.
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Write a Well-structured Speech
- Don't write without a plan. Think, research and brainstorm of what central idea will be in your speech and the topics and hooks you will integrate.
- Begin with the end in mind. Ask yourself what would be the message you want to retain to your audience to make the writing easier.
- Divide and conquer by breaking down the general message into smaller. It will be easier for you to write and the audience will not have a hard time understanding the theme.
- Read and rewrite the speech, then repeat. The most important in every speech is having a smooth flow so that people could follow to where you're going
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Uhh... Umm...
The 'Uhs' and 'Ums' we naturally utter while speaking, or giving a speech, are generally considered to be a flaw, and a person who makes a lot of these pauses while giving a speech is generally con...
Our Brain's Spinning Noise
Disfluencies occur naturally when a speaker is processing thought while speaking a sentence, talking and thinking at the same time. The speaker can take slightly longer to find the correct phrase or word and says 'uhh'. This can also drum up the next words, making the listeners remember them.
Natural Sounding Artificial Intelligence
The attempt to remove disfluencies from public speaking is in effect 'robotizing' human beings, who unconsciously display their wisdom, intellect, and complex thinking by naturally using the pauses in their speeches.
Ironically, synthesized voice systems and Artificial Intelligence assistants are now beginning to insert disfluencies in their artificial speech, to sound warm and human-like to the listener.