Companies need to teach all their employees the basics of how to write a speech.

FORBES: Public Speaking For The Private Sector

It's not often that we get this many handwritten documents - the immediacy that we have, something where King would jot a note to himself or write an outline for a sermon or a speech, write a draft of a speech as important as the Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech.

NPR: The Significance of MLK's Personal Papers

He didn't write a concession speech because he was convinced he would win.

CNN: Don't be like Washington; listen to other views

She said she felt when you write out a speech, you use far more flowery language than if you are speaking to someone and you sound stilted and boring.

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Develop a new theory or expertise that you can write an article or give a speech on.

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"Cameron has a huge opportunity in his speech on Friday, " its editors write.

BBC: UK Politics

The bill of rights attached to the constitution of the newly formed United States of America in 1789 guaranteed free speech and a fair trial, but no right to be taught to read and write.

ECONOMIST: Millennium issue: EDUCATION

Anyone who has grown up in a culture and listened to its rhymes and sung its songs and listened to its speech knows how to write poetry.

FORBES: Why not a sonnet?