The Sculpting Phase of a Speech
There are two ways you can write down your speech:
- How you want to say it;
- As an outline or a skeleton.
When you've written it down it's going to take more than several times to figure out what you're trying to say and this is the sculpting process where you edit, add, or delete parts of your speech to make it sound better.
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