"Help, it's speech writing time."Tips on writing a good speech
The principle purpose of a speech will generally fall into one of four basic types:
- Informative – This speech serves to provide interesting and useful information to your audience. Some examples of informative speeches:
- A teacher telling students about earthquakes
- A student talking about her research
- A travelogue about the Tower of London
- A computer programmer speaking about new software
- Demonstrative Speeches – This has many similarities with an informative speech. A demonstrative speech also teaches you something. The main difference lies in including a demonstration of how to do the thing you’re teaching. Some examples of demonstrative speeches:
- How to start your own blog
- How to bake a cake
- How to write a speech
- How to… just about anything
- Persuasive – A persuasive speech works to convince people to change in some way: they think, the way they do something, or to start doing something that they are not currently doing. Some examples of persuasive speeches:
- Become an organ donor
- Improve your health through better eating
- Television violence is negatively influencing our children
- Become a volunteer and change the world
- Entertaining — The after-dinner speech is a typical example of an entertaining speech. The speaker provides pleasure and enjoyment that make the audience laugh or identify with anecdotal information. Some examples of entertaining speeches:
- Excuses for any occasion
- Explaining cricket to an American
- Things you wouldn’t know without the movies
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