ORALCOMM ♡ Principles of Speech

Principles of Speech Writing

1. Begin with tried and opening devices

2. Proceed with highlights

3. End with crisp closers

4. Analyze the audience

5. Outline your speech

6. Follow the conventions of a sentence outline

7. Organize the speech content

Opening devices

1. Statement of the Topic

2. An Interesting Story

3. Jolting Statement

4. Statement of the Importance of the Topic to the Audience

5. Challenging Question

6. Significant Question

7. Complimentary Reference

8. Quotation

9. Humorous Anecdote

10. Illustration

Crisp Closers

1. General Statement

2. Apt Quotation

3. Practical Suggestion

4. Striking Statement

5. Encouraging Message

6. Summarize your Speech

7. Appeal

8. Inducement

Analyze the Audience

• manner of speech delivery must be adapted to audience

• factor that will improve your adaptation: feedback

  • ability to know, by looking at your audience

  • whether or not they have heard, seen, or understood the message

Carson and Mayers

1. Maintain a sense of humor to sustain or revive interest.

2. Make vocal adjustments to recapture your audience.

3. Handle or ignore unexpected distractions.

4. Reinstate your point if your audience aren’t getting it.

   • trying not to repeat the same terms

   • simplifying your language

   • thinking of an example or an analogy

Outline your Speech

1. Should begin with a title of the script.

2. Followed by a guiding principle which summarizes the main idea of the speech.

3. Introduction, the Body, and the Conclusion should be written in the form of concrete statements.

4. The parts of the outline, heads and subheads should be labeled by alternating figures and letters correctly punctuated and indented as shown.

Organize the Speech Content

1. Chronologically, according to time. Explain what happened first, then second, then third.

2. “Past, Present, Future” approach.

3. Order your message by logic. One way to do this is to use the “cause and effect” approach.

4. By using the comparison approach.

5. The PGP approach: particular, general, and back to particular.

6. Do NOT make your organization too complex.

Principles of Speech Delivery

• Perception: stop trying to be great public speaker

• Perfection: when you make a mistake, no one cares but you

• Visualization if you can see it, you can speak it

• Discipline: practice makes perfect good

• Description: make it personal

• Inspiration: speak to serve

• Anticipation: always leave your audience wanting more

Elements of Poetry

• Rhyme

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Pair antonyms

Passive

• audience should be informed of some of the guest speaker’s achievement

Active

• let the audience know some of the guest speaker's achievements