We now come to the point where we can actually start getting together the material for writing a speech. I'll demonstrate this with my speech about social media. Looking back, you remember that you have to have a brief and an intention. And we also know that a good speech is made up of a beginning, a middle, and an end. I've got my trusty speech writing kit here, paper pen laptop for researching, and a mug of coffee. So let's get started.

As we said earlier, I need a brief for my speech. Well, because this is a modern course, I think it'd be useful to do a speech about the communication aspects of social media. So the brief I've given myself is right to speech to introduce you to the modern channel of communication opened up by social media and examine some effects. Okay, so now I've got my brief, I'm going to write down my intention and intended outcome. So my intention will be, I will help my audience to understand modern communication, and its positive and negative features. After my speech, the audience will understand the opportunities for using social media.

Hi, Jasmine, hi, guy, how are you getting on? Well asked me to start brief myself. And I've written out my intention and outcome, and I'm going to start getting my material together. Now, how are you going to do that? Well, I already know some things from my own experience, but I'm not going to claim that I know everything about the subject. So I need to look at some of the resources and do some research.

I need enough material that's suitable to help me reach my outcome. I think it's really important to stress that it's okay to get quite a lot of your material from whatever source that you can don't think that you'd have to do it all by yourself and provide new insights. You make your speech your own, by the way you arrange it and deliberate It's often really useful to have a notebook handy at all times, while you're just stating a speech, you can be sure that when you get that inspirational thought coming to your mind that you're not going to be able to remember it later on. So write it down. I keep either a notebook or even my iPad at my bedtime table. So when I'm writing a speech, it's easier.

You might also want to get ideas from other people, especially if you work in a team. Now, you might ask yourself, how much material do I need? always bear in mind, it's better to have too much than too little than having to scratch around looking for more. Make sure that you know how much time you have to feel because that will affect everything you write down from now on. So what sort of material you're going to research? Well, of course, I've got my own experience of social media.

I mean, it's become part of my armory, but I'm going to supplement my knowledge by researching on the internet. I'm particularly interested in putting over the advantages And the pitfalls of social media. So I'll use sources like Google Wikipedia, as well as any articles that I know that are out there. And of course, I'll talk to people who use it as well. So how much material Have you actually got? Well, I've got quite a lot, actually, more than I need for my speech, but it's always better to have more because I can always discard what I don't need.

Or I can keep it in the background as material because I do get asked lots of different questions. Okay, so you've got all the material, you're going to have everyone how they should arrange it. So as if they were doing it? Well, that's very much up to every individual really, what I'm going to do is sort of think out loud all of the material and then I'm going to select what I want and arrange them under headings so that I can see the patterns, what you might like to do this as well. Or you actually might prefer a mind mapping of some sort. Choose what you're comfortable with, and what helps you make sense of what you've got.

Right? I guess I'll leave you to it. I'll be interest to see what you come up with. Thank you. What I'm going to do now is to make what I call a material cloud. So here's my material cloud.

The next thing I'm going to do is decide on my three main points and then arrange my material under these headings. Some material will not fall under these headings, but I won't discard it yet. To do this, I'll go back to my intention and underline the important words. So my three main points are going to be framed around communication, positive and negative. It also looks as if there will be an element of contrasting two things so that will indicate the type of speech I should write. I'll now arrange my material under those headings.

Now, at this stage, I can cut out some material and add others as I review my thoughts, some items or leave there for the moment. Even if they don't fall under the headings, they might prove useful or give me some sort of backup material later on. So here's my arrangement. My material is now arranged in the three main points plus a few that are unallocated. Some of these are just speech structures that I'll use anyway. And some of might be able to use as a seminar or keep in reserve.

Hello, guys, so that's it done then Jasmine? No, not quite. What I like to do is use three R's, reviewing, revising and refining. And you keep doing this until you get the material right for you. So what's the next stage? Okay, I'm going to get it into a form where I'm ready to actually start writing my speaking notes now.

Okay, some of you might have To go straight into writing the text of the speech, but I think it's best to plan it out a bit more. So to do this, what I like to use is a writing frame to help me layout my speech. With the writing frame, I can fill in an outline of the different sections with brief notes, so that I know where I'm going. You can find a copy in the course materials for this module. Here's my outline speech I filled in on my writing frame. And with the beginning and the end put in.

Even though I've got my outline in the writing brain, I'm still not going to commit myself to writing it just yet. I'm going to check it out, see whether it does what I want it to do, and if not, I'm going to revise it. My advice to you at this point is to look at it again. Look at the outline speech. Are you happy with it? Have you missed anything out and you say in the right order?

Is it clear or the main point supported. Always go back and revise what you've written again and again, and add things if you need to. But most likely, you need to cut things out. You might decide to reorder the material for clarity, and that's fine. Each time you revise, tighten up your speech and rewrite your writing frame. Now, this might seem a bit long winded, but again, it takes less time to do then I've described it.

You'll find when it comes to writing your speech, it's much easier to do. Okay, so can I hear your speech now? Nope, nope, not yet. I'm going to write it and practice it a few times. In the next video, guys, we'll cover another very important topic that I'll use and then you can hear my speech right. Now at this stage.

If you're writing your own speech along with us, we suggest that you do what Jasmine has just done. Research on material, arrange what you are going to use and fill in a writing frame. If you need to, you can always look at this video again and remind yourselves of the steps to take See you next time, when I will introduce what is called signposting