When choosing your speech topic, brainstorm to generate many ideas, and distill those ideas to find your singular topic.
Knowing and understanding your audience is one of the most important parts of developing an effective speech.
In order to fully substantiate any claims you make in your speech, you must fully research those claims and provide supporting evidence.
All speeches must have a point or a main argument – a thesis.
Use a variety of ways to support the ideas and claims that you make with your thesis statement to give your speech depth and dynamics.
Arrange your speech – your thesis, additional points, and supporting evidence – in a way that will make sense to your audience.
A good speech is not written in one sitting; write multiple drafts, then review and edit before settling on a final text.
Practice makes perfect!
Details like how you dress, enunciate, and use body language can be just as important as what you say.