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Beginner
What is a good starting point to approach a speech or presentation?
Picturing yourself concluding your speech to applause from the audience.
Asking yourself what you want to gain from your speech.
Writing down what action you want the audience to take when you have finished speaking, e.g. approve a budget, vote for you, invest capital in your business.
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2
Beginner
Before you start writing your speech, what should you do?
Think about what ideas you care about.
Write three paragraphs with three ideas, and edit them until you get it right.
Brainstorm all the ideas you can think of that are relevant to your topic and might interest the audience.
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Beginner
Why is it a bad idea to go straight to writing a speech without any prior preparation?
It is likely that your speech will have too many ideas for the audience to remember.
It is not a bad idea because it will take less time.
It is likely that you will have too many ideas, and many of them will not be relevant, interesting or memorable to the audience.
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