Write a Valedictorian Speech
The answer to the question "How do I write a good valedictorian speech?" depends on what your goal at the graduation ceremony is. As a valedictorian, you are probably already viewed as a smarter or more popular student. You don't have to sell yourself like you would in college application essays. Rather, your speech should be a memorable piece of yourself that the audience will appreciate. If your goal is to justify your image as a top student, then by all means, write a speech filled with glittering generalities and scintillating verbiage, but if you want to be the person who everyone gets to finally know after years of impersonal exchanges in hallways and classrooms, or the one entertaining speaker in a boring ceremony, then the key is to PERSONALIZE.Personalizing a speech saves you from the worst mistakes a speaker can make. The reason certain speeches are boring is because the listener can't relate to them. They deal with concepts, not things. If I said "Follow your dreams. Never give up," I've summed up 90 percent of speeches everywhere. There's nothing wrong with that message, but unless you color between those lines with something unique, your speech will be another assembly-line preachfest.
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