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Public speaking is the process or act of performing a speech to a live audience.

There are three general purposes that all speeches fall into: to inform to persuade and to entertain.

Creating flow involves using logical connections between ideas, strong topic sentences, concise wording, and a varied sentence structure.

Writing with conciseness prevents confusion by eliminating wordiness and saves time by shortening the document for easier reading.

Clarity is a characteristic of a speech or a prose composition that communicates effectively with its intended audience.

Speakers can use a variety of different organizational patterns including categorical/topical, comparison/contrast, spatial, chronological, biographical, causal, problem-cause-solution, and psychological.

Demography is the study of statistics such as births, deaths, income, or the incidence of disease, which illustrate the changing structure of human populations.

Generally, the purpose of Speech Writing is to inform, persuade, instruct, or entertain. By taking a step back to examine the general purpose of the speech, a speaker reinforces his or her thoughts and ideas by making sure that everything presented to argue your case aligns to that general purpose.

Taking an audience-centered approach is important because a speaker's effectiveness will be improved if the presentation is created and delivered in an appropriate manner.

When writing a speech, you need to consider all of these methods: Analyze your audience,Select a topic, Review the topic in light of audience analysis, Determine speech purpose, Compose a thesis statement, Develop the main points, Gather supporting details,Separate speech into its major parts.