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Speech outlines are written to organise your thoughts and ideas for effective speech writing. They help you understand how to maintain the flow of your content. A well-formulated content not only increases the worth of your speech but also helps you deliver it with great ease.
If you want to stay away from the difficulties of poor structuring that leaves negative impression on your audience, follow the below essential points:
1. First of all, state your topic and define your audience in a single line. This practice helps you remember your audience while writing the rest of the content.
2. Now, decide your organisational pattern and mention the selected pattern. You may choose from a list of following patterns:
- Topical or Logical pattern
- Time sequence or Chronological pattern
- Geographical or Spatial pattern
- Classification pattern
- Cause-effect pattern
- Advantage-disadvantage pattern
- Problem-solution pattern
3. It is time to outline your introduction section. As a speaker, you should know what you want to say before writing. Collect all the relevant information and sources. Add a greeting note along with the thesis statement and the purpose of your speech. Also, propose a brief summary of your main points and effectiveness of speech for the audience.
4. Now, outline your body section. State a transitional sentence that shows you have done with the introduction and about to start the body section. State your main ideas, supporting ideas, details and examples, and visuals (if required). Remember; just represent each of your idea in a single line.
5. Last but not the least; outline your conclusion. Use a transitional sentence that shows it is the end of your body and beginning of your conclusion. Just summarise the main points that you really want to make the audience remember. Now, create a final sentence to create an overall impact of your speech.
Making a great speech outline is not a hard nut to crack. Just make sure that your work is free from errors. Error free work increases the readability of your content. Revise it till you get completely satisfied from the final structure.
