Everything you write, whether it be a Memo, or a letter, a fax, an email, a speech, a Thesis, a business report, an essay or a novel has 3 basic sections that are the same.  These are

The body of your speech or letter, is that part where you actually say what you want to say.

 

Writing an Introduction and a Conclusion to any Speech, Report, Thesis or letter is relatively easy, because you don't do it until you have already finished writing the Body of your speech. 

 

Once you have written that, it is just a matter of saying: "Today I want to talk about this" in the introduction - and saying "This is what I talked about" in the conclusion.  The hard part is the Body of your Speech or other writing.

 

The body of a speech is like your own body.  The Body, or 'your flesh' - is what everyone sees and hears in your speech or letter, but underneath it there are a whole lot of bones that support the 'Flesh'. Without those supporting bones, your body will fall down.  The same goes for any professional writing or presentation.

 

The Bones of a Speech or other written presentation, is the outline that results when you use a professional formula to construct your written masterpiece.  The bones of the speech derives from your ability to apply word association to your topic.

 

In the Lesson at www.kingscalendar.com entitled: Writing Memos, Essays etc. there is a photograph which shows you one way to "Draw" the bones or outline of a speech or essay.

That photograph appears on the right side of this page.

 

The Topic for which we are providing an outline is: Toilets. All we do is 'word associate' and come up with Ideas.  These are the ideas I came up with.

 

 

TOPIC -Toilets

• 1. Everyone uses toilets
  
• 2. There are Private & Public Toilets
  
• 3. There are Modern & Traditional toilets
  
• 4. Toilets are Full of Germs & Sickness
  
• 5. We Must Wash hands after going to toilets
  
• 6. We Must look after our health
  
• 7. China has many 'open toilets' (no water flushing)
  
• 8. Tourists want clean hygienic toilets during Olympic Games
  
• 9. They built 400 new public toilets in Beijing for the Olympic Games.

Each of these ideas must then be put into some type of category.  In an essay these categories would be called 'paragraphs'.  In a Novel they would be called 'Chapters'.

Categories

• a. Daily Living
• b. Hygiene
• c. China

One you have collected your ideas and categorized them, you can begin writing the body of the work.  To do that, you need to use a variety of Simple Sentences, Compound Sentences, Complex Sentences and Compound-Complex sentences.

 

We looked at Compound-Complex sentences last lesson: