Speech and writing - related?

cherie136
Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:14:14 +0000

Well, I am by no mean a Pulitzer prize-worthy writer but I love writing and I love talking in front of an audience. However, I know that some of the good writers in my school have difficulties to debate or talk in front of a class and aren’t really comfortable in front of a crowd.

I am better at describing complex ideas or use “big” words when I write than when I talk though. And I admit fearing to sound pretentious when I do use complex words in front of others. But I guess a good speaker is someone with charisma, who sounds approachable and captivate crowds… We don’t really have debate competitions here, so I can’t properly assess if there’s a correlation but in my opinion, he/she would have at least one of the above qualities.

I try to adjust my speech depending on my audience: I won’t talk to my friends and peers as I would to a teacher or a principal!