Principle of Speech Writing

COMPONENTS OF SPEECH WRITING PROCESS

Audience Analysis

• Entails looking into the profile of your target audience. This is done so you can tailor-fit your speech content and delivery to your audience. It may include:

  • Demography,

  • Situation

  • Psychology

Purpose

• The purpose for writing and delivering a speech can be divided into three- to inform, persuade, or to entertain.

• Informative speech provides clear understanding of the concept.

• An Entertainment speech provides amusement.

• A persuasive speech provides the audience with well-argued ideas that can influence their own belief or decision.

Topic

• This is your main point, which can be determine once you have decided on your purpose.

• If you are free to decide a topic, choose one that interests you.

• Narrowing the topic means your making your main idea more specific and focused.

• Data gathering is the stage where you collect ideas, information, sources, and references relevant or related to your specific topic.

• Writing patterns in general, are structures that will help you energize the ideas related to your topic

Parts of a Speech

Introduction

This is the foundation of your speech. Here, your primary goal is to get the attention of your audience and present the subject or main idea of your speech.

• Use real-life experiences and connect it to your subject.

• Start with familiar quotations then explain what it means.

• Tell a personal story or facts.

Body of the Speech

This provides explanation, examples, or any details that can help you deliver your purpose and explain the main ideas of your speech. Focus on the central idea.

Strategies you can use:

• Present real-life or practical examples

• Show statistics

• Present comparisons

• Share ideas from the experts or practitioners

Conclusion

This restates the main idea of your speech. Furthermore, it provides a summary, emphasizes the message, and calls for action. While the primary goal of the introduction is to get the attention of your audience, the conclusion aims to leave the audience with a memorable statement.

• Begin your conclusion with a restatement of your message.

  • Use positive examples, encouraging word, or memorable lines.

  • Ask a question to make them reflect.

PRINCIPLE OF SPEECH DELIVERY

• A good speech delivery should convey the speaker's ideas clearly, interestingly, and without distracting the audience.

• It should have a certain degree of formality with the best attributes of good conversation.

1. Articulation: Making the individual letter sound clear and intelligible. It also concerns changing of sounds coming your vocal folds by moving the teeth, tongue, jaw, lip, and other speech organ.

2. Modulation: A change in volume, timing, stress, pitch, tone, or inflection of the voice.

• Components of Voice Modulation

  • Pace or Speed

  • Pitch and Depth

  • Pause

  • Power

  • Volume

  • Emphasis

  • Inflection

3. Stage Presence: Refers to the certain charisma and charm that a speaker or performer possesses that draws in an audience and commands full attention. It expresses confidence.

4. Facial Expression: Help you connect with your audience and reinforce the content of your speech. Can bring your speech to life if natural and authentic

5. Gestures: Establish contact with the audience. Provide visual support for your messages

6. Body Posture and Movements: Shows confidence. It is using the body to communicate positively and effectively.

7. Audience Rapport: Building understanding and harmonious relationship or bond between the speaker and the target audience/ listeners. It will guarantee that your speech will be enthusiastically listened to.

• Elements of Audience

  • Rapport Audience Composition

  • Reasons for listening

  • Concerns

  • Expectations

  • Vocabulary

  • General Beliefs

  • Things they have in common with the speaker.