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How to Set the Style for a Speech

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From Quick Guide: Speech Writing 101

Summary: When setting the style for a speech, determine who your audience is, decide on a suitable tone and determine whether or not you're arguing for or against the topic. Create a well-balanced speech that helps engage the audience with tips from a teacher in this free video on education.

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By Michael Walter Mitchell
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Michael Walter Mitchell has a masters degree in education from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has been teaching English and history at various secondary schools. He's...read more

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"Hi my name is Mike Mitchell and today I am going to explain how to set the style for a speech. In any speech that you give you need to set some sort of tone or style for that speech and there are two important criteria that you need to decide when setting this style. The first one is that you need to decide who your audience is. When you determine the audience you will also be able to decide what sort of tone you want to have in your speech. Obviously an audience of your friends is very different from an audience of business partners or of some sort of authority figures that you have to give a speech to and it is also depends on whether this is going to be a hostile audience or a friendly audience. With regards to the tone you have to decide whether this is going to be a serious speech or a humorous speech and then you will be able to determine what kind of wording and sentence structure you will use in order to convey the speech. Once you have decided on your audience and also on the tone then with the tone you can decide whether you want to make it humorous or serious and with this style you want to decide whether it is going to be in agreement or whether you are going to be in argument with the audience. Normally in a simple speech you generally want the audience to agree with you at least by the end of the speech and so more often than not parts of it can be serious and parts of it can be humorous and if you get a nice balance between the two the audience will end up agreeing with you by the end of the speech."

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