Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.
How to Write an Effective Speech
Pele Dai 2010.3.25
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Public speaking experience
According to The Book of Lists, the No.1 phobia in America is the fear of public speaking.
All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
---Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
--- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Why?
Body
(reasoning and analyzing, examples, quotes)
Conclusion
Language
“…I will fight all my life for the Party’s educational cause”.
“Some day I may die on the platform. And my soul will turn to a colorful butterfly, which will be flying among students, watching them make progress and become talented people, watching our great motherland become wealthy and powerful…”
Factors will contributing to an effective speech
Pronunciation and intonation, content, structure, language, stage manner, physical condition…
Preparation, delivery
To communicate
attention Speaker Relevant Clear Creative Complete Coherent Correct …
listener
The procedure of writing a speech
Analyzing the title Choosing your view Racking your brains or searching for material Sifting your material Drafting your speech Editing your speech Rehearsing
Others say, “Teachers are like ferrymen, carrying people to another side of the river, boat by boat, leaving the teachers themselves in the boat.” And teachers say, “It’s our great pleasure that we can carry young people to the other side of science and technologle…”
“I feel proud of being a ferryman…”
Some say, “Teachers are like candles, lighting up others and destroying themselves.” And teachers say, “That’s why we chose to be teachers originally.”
Train of thoughts
Presentation/Description/introduction Explanation/ clarification/ argumentation Conclusion/ solution/ expectation
Introduction
(directly, by using a quote, by telling a story, by asking questions, etc.)
Objectives of speech
When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. ---Seneca
To inform To persuade (to convince, to actuate, to inspire) To entertain
Rhetorics
Parallelism
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate--we can not consecrate--we can not hallow--this ground.
…and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.