ORAL

COMMUNIATION
ENGLISH 1
RECAP
What will you do?
As an SHS student who is an environmental
advocate, you were invited to talk about
environmental protection during a forum
initiated by the youth leaders in your
community. You received the information a
week before the forum. What will you do in
preparation for your talk?
 PRINCIPLES OF
EFFECTIVE SPEECH
WRITING
Mrs. Kimberly P. Sison
Speech Writing
Objectives
At the end of the session the
students should be able to:
a. determine the different principles of effective
speech writing;
b. give the importance of a well written speech
c. write a speech script which will depict the
different principles of speech writing .
Principles of Speech
Writing
1. Choosing the topic
2. Analyzing the Audience
3. Sourcing the Information
4. Outlining and Organizing Speech Content
 First Principle:
Choosing the topic
A speech is meant to impart a message to listeners. The
choice of topic may be up to the speaker but, more often
than not, the speaker is given the topic because it is the
central theme of the program, conference, or
presentation.
Things to consider
✔ it should be interesting to the speaker and to the
listener
✔ It should be new to grab the listener’s attention
✔ It should be controversial and could encourages
audience to listen
✔ It should consider the culture of the speaker and
listener
✔ It should be in the level of knowledge of both the
speaker and the audience
 Second Principle:
Analyzing the Audience
Before writing down anything
about the Speech, one must engage in
analyzing the audience. The audience
is one of the major factors that
determine the uniqueness of the
Speech.
 Tips in Analyzing
your Audience
✔ guess the demographic data of the audience (age, gender,
ethnic background, occupation etc.)
✔ know the groups which your audience belongs to
✔ find out how your audience feels about the topic of your
speech
✔ try to know how they feel about you as a speaker and
what they know about you
Third Principle: Sourcing
the Information
This involves seeking out all the
available means for finding
materials to support the speech.
 Topic Information
should be:
✔ must be relevant
✔ must be timely
✔ must cover most , if not all topic
✔ must be in the level of knowledge of
both speaker and audience
Fourth Principle: Outlining and
Organizing the Speech
Content

This principle aims to have a

well organized order of
ideas
Steps in Organizing
speech content
1. Sort information into categories
2. Organize the speech itself
a. Chronological outline
b. Spatial/ Geographical Outline
c. Cause and Effect Outline
d. Problem- Solution Outline
e. Topical Outline
 Values Integration
Cultural Sensitivity
-learner values mindful thinking before speaking through
following religiously the principles of effective writing
Adoption of Sustainable Lifestyles
-learner thinks and decides ahead to ensure the good
outcomes of his/her actions such as simple proper waste
management and the like, connected to the concept of
writing ahead before speaking.
 Performance
Check
To employ the different principles of effective speech writing,
this time you are going to draft your own script. You are
going to write a script for your speech using a topic depending
on your strand.
HUMSS - Advocacy Plan
ABM - Financial Literacy Talk
STEM - Life Testimony/ Life Story
Performance
Check

The script will be graded according to the

following criteria:
Content- 25 pts
Organization- 15 pts
Grammar & Mechanics- 10 pts
Total – 50 pts