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    The A to Zen of Speech Writing
    The A to Zen of Speech Writing
    The A to Zen of Speech Writing
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    The A to Zen of Speech Writing

    By Kathrin Lake

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    The A to Zen of Speech Writing gives you a system for writing great speeches at a professional level. Get a boost with Kathrin Lake's easy teachings using her TEPI method. You first decide on the primary speech purpose by dividing it into one of the four broad categories of Training, Entertaining, Persuasion or Inspiration and then follow the guidelines and apply the essential elements. Each element has a short, powerful and inspiring description with the perfect amount of information, and a quote from one or more of the truly great speakers and writers. This is followed by a project page that asks you terrific questions to give you ultimate clarity. Using these project pages you can easily produce a speech that will stand out, win a competition, and make you look like a pro.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKathrin Lake
    Release dateMay 31, 2012
    ISBN9780988104105
    The A to Zen of Speech Writing
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    Kathrin Lake

    Kathrin Lake is an award-winning playwright, writing coach, professional speaker and author of Writing with Cold Feet and From Survival to Thrival. Kathrin has helped many students, entrepreneurs and experts write their books or keynote speeches using her Power of Story system. Kathrin lives in Vancouver but winters in Mexico where she gives writing retreats.

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      The A to Zen of Speech Writing - Kathrin Lake

      tmp_d31849023a40e062c4d6953f56348a92__ci_sR_html_5144dc57.gif TEPI Method

      How to Use This Book

      1) Choose the primary ultimate purpose you have for your speech project in the four categories of the TEPI© method:

      Training, Entertaining, Persuasion, Inspiration

      2) Once you have speech purpose you can go the corresponding pages, in approximately the order listed for those types of speeches, listed on the following pages. Read each relevant page, gather inspiration and then, answer the questions in the project pages to write a stellar speech.

      NOTE: There are 26 elements in all, but every speech should have these 13:

      Purpose & Points, Know Your Audience, Big Bang Beginning, Flow, Meaningful Conclusion, Neat Package, You, Storytelling, Timing, Less is More, Words, Delivery Humor (almost always).

      See your Table of Contents or Directory for each element, or use the links under each speech type.

      Training Speeches

      Training (20 Elements)

      Move through these elements for Training Speeches:

      Purpose and Points P is for Purpose and Points

      Questions Q is for Questions

      Know Your Audience K is for Know Your Audience

      Research R is for Research

      Interactive I is for Interactive

      Big Bang Beginning B is for Big Bang Beginnings

      Flow F is for Flow

      Neat Package N is for Neat Package

      Meaningful Conclusion M is for Meaningful Conclusion

      Overcoming Obstacles O is for Overcoming Obstacles

      Visual Aids V is for Visual Aids

      Action A is for Action

      You Y is for You

      Storytelling S is for Storytelling

      Timing T is for Timing

      Less is More L is for Less is More

      Words W is for Words

      Humor H is for Humor

      Delivery D is for Delivery

      Zen Z is for Zen

      Entertaining Speeches

      Entertaining (19 Elements)

      Move through these elements for Entertaining Speeches:

      Purpose and Points P is for Purpose and Points

      Know Your Audience K is for Know Your Audience

      Big Bang Beginning B is for Big Bang Beginnings

      Humor H is for Humor

      Jokes J is for Jokes

      Storytelling S is for Storytelling

      Overcoming Obstacles O is for Overcoming Obstacles

      Go Big or Go Home G is for Go Big or Go Home

      Character Voices C is for Character Voices

      Flow F is for Flow

      Unexpected U is for Unexpected

      Neat Package N is for Neat Package

      Meaningful Conclusion M is for Meaningful Conclusion

      You Y is for You

      Timing T is for Timing

      Less is More L is for Less is More

      Words W is for Words

      Delivery D is for Delivery

      Zen Z is for Zen

      Persuasion Speeches

      Persuasion (22)

      Purpose and Points P is for Purpose and Points

      Know Your Audience K is for Know Your Audience

      Emotion E is for Emotion

      Questions Q is for Questions

      Research R is for Research

      Big Bang Beginning B is for Big Bang Beginnings

      Overcoming Obstacles O is for Overcoming Obstacles

      Flow F is for Flow

      Neat Package N is for Neat Package

      Meaningful Conclusion M is for Meaningful Conclusion

      Action A is for Action

      Storytelling S is for Storytelling

      You Y is for You

      Visual aids V is for Visual Aids

      Timing T is for Timing

      Interactive I is for Interactive

      Humor H is for Humor

      Less is More L is for Less is More

      Words W is for Words

      X-seeding Xpectations X is for X-seeding Xpectations

      Delivery D is for Delivery

      Zen Z is for Zen

      Inspirational Speeches

      Inspiration (22)

      Purpose and Points P is for Purpose and Points

      Action A is for Action

      Big Bang Beginning B is for Big Bang Beginnings

      Character Voices C is for Character Voices

      Delivery D is for Delivery

      Emotion E is for Emotion

      Flow F

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