Using Emphasis in a Speech Blog

When a great battle is reported in the papers, they do not keep emphasizing the same facts over and over again. They try to get new information, or a "new slant." The news that takes an important place in the morning edition will be relegated to a small space in the late afternoon edition. We are interested in new ideas and new facts. This principle has a very important bearing in determining your emphasis.

Do not emphasize the same idea over and over again unless you desire to lay extra stress on it; Senator Thurston desired to put the maximum amount of emphasis on "force" in his speech . Note how force is emphasized repeatedly. As a general rule, however, the new idea, the"new slant," whether in a newspaper report of a battle or a speaker's enunciation of his ideas, is emphatic.