Guides
Rhetorical devices about life: which ones earn their place
Rhetorical devices about life sorted into those built to travel and those built to be trusted, with named speeches and five questions for judging any line.
Desk
Costs Desk
Quotes, ranges and the line items that move once famous speeches is under way.
Maintenance
Which speeches are in the public domain, and where to find them
Public domain speeches are free to reprint, but the famous list was built by school readers. Here are the texts worth finding and where they are held.
Maintenance
How to produce a one page speech analysis in a single session
A step by step method for a one page speech analysis in about two hours: fix the version, ask a question, map the structure, add three observations and a limit.
Costs
Which award speeches are most often misquoted
Seven award speeches carry the most misquotes, from Sally Field in 1985 to Meryl Streep in 2017, and each famous Oscar moment has a checkable fix.
Features
Short war and peace speeches: forms and authorship
Short war and peace speeches take official forms; this article explores brevity, uncertain authorship, and how to study an individual statement.
Industry
Which commencement speeches are still worth reading
Some commencement speeches still repay reading decades later. Here are the ones with a verifiable ceremony, a recording, and a text that holds up.
Guides
Reading business speeches misquotes with a sceptical eye
Business speeches misquotes: seven corporate mechanisms that move a line to the founder, signs of a manufactured quotation, and how to check one properly.
Reviews
Ranking political speeches vs grouping them by the problem
Best political speeches lists measure survival, recording and curriculum. What ranking hides, and a grouping by the speaker's problem that works better.
Costs
How civil rights speeches shifted decade by decade
Civil rights speeches shifted decade by decade as new speakers, audiences and political demands reshaped the language of American protest and reform.
Maintenance
Three audiences in one room: rebuilding civil rights speech context
Civil rights speeches context: three audiences in one room, the week before, the building itself, and what the audience could actually do the next day.
Industry
4 points on short civil rights speeches that matter
Short civil rights speeches: five forms and what forced them, why lifted lines are unreliable, and how to study one without reproducing a single word.