Developing your main points

The topic I chose to discuss this week is the importance of developing the main points of your speech. When fine tuning this very important part of your speech, it is important to identify clarity and relevance in the materials you are preparing to present. You can ask your self, "does this bring clarity to my topic?" or "does this confuse the issue?" Chances are you will be able to weed out a lot of unnecessary information during this process. Looking at relevance of information goes hand in hand with the prior step. If you can eliminate non relevant information then the overall speech will be less confusing to your audience and you will be more likely to stay on point in your delivery. As a speaker, you will appreciate taking the extra time to perform these steps when the delivery of your speech goes smoothly and your audience leaves with a clear sense of your topic as well as the information you have presented.