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Speechwriting tips to help make sure you don’t send your audience to sleep

Dawn Kofie · February 26, 2017 · Leave a Comment

Speechwriting tips to help make sure you don’t send your audience to sleep

Have you ever listened to a speech so rambling and tedious that you felt a tidal wave of relief when it finally ended? Yup, me too. These speechwriting tips will make sure that you never subject anyone to anything that torturous. They’ll help you engage, entertain and delight your audiences. (Instead of making them feel […]

Filed Under: Writing Advice Tagged With: Dan Pink, motivation, speeches, speechwriting, TED Talks

How to Write an Introduction: Your Three-Step Guide to Doing It Better, and Doing It Faster

Lynn Reynolds · January 9, 2017 · Leave a Comment

How to Write an Introduction: Your Three-Step Guide to Doing It Better, and Doing It Faster

Whatever you’re working on, you too can write excellent introductions by rethinking your writing process, and by taking a tip from journalism. 1.    Write Your Introduction Last Seriously. That’s because I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve seen writers stuck at the first sentence because they’re trying to write the introduction first. But […]

Filed Under: Writing Advice Tagged With: Argumentation, Getting Started, Introduction, Journalism, Ledes, Psychology for Writers, Rhetoric, Standfirst, The Guardian, Writing Process

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