Organize and Write Your Speech


Use these resources and exercises to organize your ideas and write the wording for your speech.

Develop an Organizational Pattern Check out notes about types of organizational schema that you can use to guide your research strategy and to outline the main ideas of your speech.
Write an Introduction and a Conclusion Develop creative ideas for the introduction and conclusion to your speech.
Look it Up Along with regular dictionaries, you'll find sources for literature and culture, scientific fields, legal definitions, and Internet terms.
Say it with Style Check out notes and examples of creative use of language style for speechmaking.
Use Writing Tools Use these resources to polish the form of your speech, outline ideas and cite your sources
The Archive Check out historic examples to see how speakers organized their ideas and used language effectively.



Interactive Exercise Interactive Exercises
5W's and How for Informative Speeches
Assessing Judicial Arguments
Look It Up
Finding and Citing Research Sources


The audio examples in this module are in RealAudio format. To listen to them, you need to download the RealPlayer plug-in from Progressive Networks. The plug-in is free and works with most browsers.


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