Eight key steps for successful speechwriting

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At Indeed [Career Guide, Canada] on March 19, 2023 there is an excellent brief article titled The 8 Key Steps to Successful Speech Writing (With Tips). Those steps are:

 

1]  Choose an important topic

2]  Consider your audience

3]  Prepare a structure

4]  Begin with a strong point

5]  Use concrete details and visual aids

6]  Include a personal element

7]  Consider rhetorical devices

8]  End memorably

 

Under #7, their list of rhetorical devices includes alliteration, anadiplosis, antimetabole, antithesis, asyndeton, metaphor, and simile. Back on December 14, 2015 I blogged about The joy of metaphor, but have not discussed the other rhetorical devices beginning with an A.