Now we Have Our Synopsis

Now that we have a synopsis, the next step is to lay out the speech on paper.

Let's put it on one sheet where we can look at all of it at one time.

It is difficult to consider the parts of a talk when they are on different sheets of paper, but when the parts are on one sheet, you can look, analyze, consider, and shift around to your heart's content.

Just take a sheet of ordinary-size letter paper and mark it off in squares. I usually use a larger piece of paper so that I will have larger squares and can write more on each one.

The illustration below shows how such a layout will look when you have the paper squared off and have written the notes from your synopsis on the squares.

Since this is a how-to talk, the subjects can be handled in almost any order; they have been marked on the sheet in the order given in the synopsis.

The numbers in the upper right-hand corners of the squares indicate the order in which the subjects were listed in the synopsis.

Continued...From "How to Write a Speech"
By: EDWARD J. HEGARTY

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