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This document outlines the key steps in writing an effective speech: 1) Conducting audience analysis to understand the audience's demographics, preferences, and needs. 2) Determining the purpose of informing, entertaining, or persuading the audience. 3) Selecting and narrowing a topic. 4) Gathering data from sources about the topic. 5) Selecting a speech pattern like biographical or problem-solution to organize ideas. 6) Creating an outline to arrange thoughts. 7) Writing the body with explanations and details. 8) Preparing an introduction to catch attention. 9) Preparing a conclusion to restate the main point. 10) Editing for focus, clarity, continuity, and impact. 11) Re

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Principles of Speech Writing PDF

This document outlines the key steps in writing an effective speech: 1) Conducting audience analysis to understand the audience's demographics, preferences, and needs. 2) Determining the purpose of informing, entertaining, or persuading the audience. 3) Selecting and narrowing a topic. 4) Gathering data from sources about the topic. 5) Selecting a speech pattern like biographical or problem-solution to organize ideas. 6) Creating an outline to arrange thoughts. 7) Writing the body with explanations and details. 8) Preparing an introduction to catch attention. 9) Preparing a conclusion to restate the main point. 10) Editing for focus, clarity, continuity, and impact. 11) Re

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Principles of Speech

Writing
Oral Communication in Context
Principles of
Speech Writing
• Conducting audience analysis
• Determining the purpose of the
speech
• Selecting a topic
• Narrowing down a topic
• Gathering data

• Editing/Revising • Selecting a speech pattern


• Rehearsing • Preparing an outline
• Creating the body of the speech
• Preparing the introduction
• Preparing the conclusion
1. Audience Analysis
• looking into the profile of your target audience.

• Profile includes:
a) Demography - age range, male-female ratio, educational
background, nationality, economic status, and others.
b) Situation - time, venue, occasion, size
c) Psychology - values, beliefs, attitudes, preferences,
cultural and racial ideologies and needs
2. Determining the purpose
• finding out whether you want to inform, entertain, or
persuade

Example:

• General purpose: To inform

• Specific purpose: To inform the students about the


benefits of solid waste management
3. Selecting the topic and narrowing
it
• Your topic is your focal point. You need to make it more
specific.

• Example:

• Topic: Solid Waste Management

• Narrowed topic: Benefits of Solid Waste Management


4. Data gathering

• the part where you collect information from

sources about your topic.


5. Selecting a writing pattern
• will help you to organize your ideas. You can choose
from the following:
a. Biographical – presents descriptions of life of a person
b. Categorical/Topical – presents related categories to
support the topic
c. Causal – presents cause and effect relationships
d. Chronological – presents ideas in time order
e. Comparison-contrast – compares and contrast two or
three ideas
f. Problem-solution – presents problem and solutions
6. Making an outline
• can help you arrange your thoughts to make it easy for
you to write your speech in an organized way.
• You can use a table format or a list format.
• Example:
I. Problems on Wastes
A. Environment
B. Health
II. Ways to Resolve
A. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
B. Solid Waste Management
7. Creating the body

• involves writing explanations, examples, and

details about the topic you have chosen.


8. Preparing the introduction

• Your introduction must catch the attention of

your audience and present the subject or

topic of your speech.


9. Preparing the conclusion

• The conclusion restates the main point of your

speech.
10. Editing and revising
• correcting your speech for mechanics such as
grammar, punctuation, spelling, organization,
and the like.
• When you edit, be sure to:
a. Edit for focus – check if it focuses on the main
topic
b. Edit for clarity – make sure your words are clear
and easy to understand
c. Edit for concision – keep it simple and easy
10. Editing and revising
• When you edit, be sure to:

d. Edit for continuity – ideas should flow smoothly

e. Edit for variety – shift in tone and style

f. Edit for impact and beauty – make it


memorable
11. Practice

•Practice makes perfect. When you

practice, you look at the time and how

you deliver your speech.


Activity
It is time to make your first draft.
Follow the steps in the writing process
to write your speech.
Speech Writing Process Your Output

Audience Profile

Purpose

Topic

Pattern to use

Outline

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