Logical Organization

• Step 1: Pre-writing - where you decide what topic you write about. it shouldn't be too broad or too narrow.
• Step 2: Researching - gather information from credible sources
• Four Pre-writing or Brainstorming Techniques: Listing, Clustering, Free-writing, and the Journalists' Questions
• Listing - used to generate a lot of information. it is short time especially when you start with topics that are very broad and you want to narrow them.
• Clustering - mind mapping or idea mapping that allows you to explore the relationship among ideas.
• Free-writing - process of generating a lot of information non-stop within a specific period
• The Journalists' Questions - traditional way of gathering information about certain topics, the asking of the 5 Ws and 1 H
• Step 3: Drafting

  • where you put your information you have researched and clustered and labeled into your own words in sentences or paragraph without minding too much on grammar and spelling.
• Step 4: Sharing and Revising

  • advisable to have somebody else read and check for some insufficiencies and details and the manner these details are structured or arranged.
• Step 5: Editing and Proofreading

  • where the speech writer sees to it that errors in in a sentence construction, grammar, punctuation, and spellings are eliminated, and correct style and format is observed in this stage.
• Step 6: Delivering

  • everything has been checked for accuracy both in structure and meaning, the speaker may now deliver it before the audience.