The Phases Of Speech Writing
When writing a speech, it is generally a good idea to split the job into 3 phases: research, writing, and rehearsing.
When you begin your research, split your research into 2 categories. The first category contains facts, statistics, and information known to be true. The second category contains speculations or unproven facts, statistics, and information together with information on your general type of audience.
When you start writing your speech, you probably want to use as many facts as possible, and sprinkle in speculation where necessary and appropriate.
Writing a speech has already been discussed at
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In case you need a summary, make sure that you outline your speech with vital points that you need to hit. After you finish writing, try to edit your speech at least twice. Edit a third time, but speak out loud while you edit as that will allow you to notice bad phrasing or ackward phrasin.
Now that your speech is finished, you next memorize it and add bits of humor or small talk at the boring spots.
Even if you can fully memorize your speech, make sure that you have a few notes. A notecard will suffice. Practice with the notecard, and then forget your speech. See how much of your speech you can make up on the spot. If you can do most of it with the notecard, you will be fine. You should not forget anything. However, if you do forget something, then you are secure in the knowledge that you can sufficiently improvise.
