The document provides tips for choosing a speech topic, determining good and bad reasons for giving a speech, analyzing a speech, effective delivery techniques, and general tips for structuring a speech. It recommends choosing a relevant topic the audience cares about and that the speaker is passionate about. It also emphasizes delivering the speech comfortably and naturally without reading directly from the paper, using techniques like repeating key words and using specific examples to support arguments.

2. CHOOSE A TOPIC
Relevant
Consider audience
Passionate about
Find a reason!
Delivery
Put your heart in it!!

3. REASONS
Good Reasons Bad Reasons
• To inspire
• to instruct
• to rally support
• to lead to action
• noble purposes.
• to merely sound off
• to feed a speaker's
ego,
• to flatter
• to intimidate
• to shame

4. SPEECH ANALYSIS
Analyze the following:
Emphasized Phrases by Repeating at the Beginning of Sentences.
Repeat Key “Theme” Words Throughout Your Speech.
Appropriate Quotations or Allusions.
Use specific examples to “ground” your arguments
Use Metaphors to Highlight Contrasting Concepts

5. DELIVERY
Choose your words wisely.
Comfortable and open.
Play with your intonation.
One message.
Natural - not read off of a paper
Do not memorize it.

6. TIPS
Brainstorm (Make a list of at least three main points you want to make)
Start off with a strong introduction.
(getting personal and showing your human side)
Use inclusive terms for individuals. (our, we, us, the class, the nation, we teenagers).
Start off with your strongest point.
Refer to your audience as “you”
Insist a lot on your important points.
End with a firm conclusion.