PRINCIPLES OF SPEECH WRITING AND DELIVERY

• Audience profile helps you plan your speech
• audiovisual aids are verbal messages to help audiences comprehend, appreciate, and retain information better
• gestures can communicate more than your words do. To call attention to ideas and emphasize words.
• rapport with the audience refers to the speakers connection with the audience
• facial expression is a gesture executed with facial muscles
• stage presence is the ability to command an audience with style and manner
• facial expression is the most basic visual aid
• modulation is achieved by changing the tone or pitch of your voice to convey various nuances when you speak
• articulation is an act, process, or means of putting something into words
• word choice will depend primarily on the type of audience and there are certain words that you say on specific occasions.
• duration is where time is important because your speech must be long enough to fulfill your speech goals but short enough to hold your audiences attention
• logical flow, if you intend to communicate your ideas clearly and effectively, you must follow a certain flow
• categorial/topical helps the speaker organize the message in a consistent manner
• spatial organizes information according to how things fit together in physical space
• categorial/topical -to create chunks of information that go together to help support the main idea
• chronological- present your information in the order in which it happened
• biographical- describe a persons life
• psychological- pattern will be a leads to b and b leads to c
• outlining and organizing speech context- allows you to better organize your speech therefore making it easy to comprehend and follow