
Speech and Presentation Writing Service - Decks with Speaker Notes
One order gets you both halves of a graded talk: the slide deck and the words you say over it. GradeDraft's speech writing service builds the two together, so every slide has a matching speaker-notes block instead of a stack of bullets and a script nobody checked against it. This is a custom speech writing service: the deck follows your outline and rubric, and the script is timed to your actual slot, not a generic five-minute template. If you need the paper behind the talk written first, start with the custom research paper writing service; this page covers the deck and the words on top of it.
One order, two deliverables: the deck and the words
What lands in the slide file
An editable deck in 16:9 widescreen, one idea per slide, headings matched to your outline, charts and tables built natively rather than dropped in as images, plus a PDF handout.
What lands in the script
The full spoken text, written to be read aloud or rehearsed from, not a copy of the slide bullets, with delivery cues marked so you know where to pause and where to look up.
90-second excerpt from a graded thesis-defense opener
Good afternoon, committee. [pause] My research asks a narrow question: does peer feedback change revision quality more than instructor feedback alone? [click — Slide 2] Three years of writing-center data say yes, but only for one kind of revision. [emphasis] Structural revision — not sentence-level editing. [click — Slide 3] Here is the sample: 214 first-year composition students across six sections.
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Bracketed cues (
[pause],[click],[emphasis]) mark where the speaker breathes, advances the deck, or leans on a word — the difference between a script that reads well and one that performs well.
Browse more annotated writing and presentation samples at samples.
How the two are keyed to each other
Each slide is numbered, and each script section carries the matching number, so rehearsing the script and clicking through the deck stay in sync.
Speaker notes in presenter view
Every deck ships with speaker notes written into presenter view, not typed into a generic notes field and forgotten. Presenter view is what you see on your laptop while the audience sees only the slide — your cues, timing marks and transitions live there.
The writers behind the deck and the script
The same subject-matter writer who could take your paper or case study builds the deck. Our powerpoint presentation writers work from your outline and your instructor's slide rubric, not a generic template — asking us to "do my presentation for me" still means sending an outline and a rubric first, not handing over a blank order. If you only need the spoken half, hire a speech writer separately — our speech writers for hire work from your assignment sheet and your slot length, and a professional speech writer is assigned by subject.
Slide count and script length: the arithmetic
Slide count and script length both come from one number: how many minutes you have on the clock.
Minutes to slides: the one-slide-per-90-seconds rule and when it breaks
Plan on roughly one content slide per 60 to 90 seconds of talk time, plus a title slide and a closing or questions slide. The rule breaks in both directions: a slide carrying a dense results table needs closer to two minutes, and a section-header or image-only slide can pass in 20 seconds.
Minutes to words at 130 wpm
Script length runs on a different constant: 130 words per minute, the average pace of a rehearsed academic talk, not a rushed read-through. A 10-minute slot needs roughly 1,300 words of raw script before you trim for pauses and Q&A buffer.
Q&A buffer and the overrun problem
Write the script to about 85% of your slot, not 100% of it. An 8.5-minute script for a 10-minute talk leaves room for a slow breath, a dropped clicker, or a question mid-presentation — overrunning the slot is the single most common deduction we see reported back from thesis defenses and seminar talks.
| Slot length | Slide count (incl. title/close) | Script length (~85% of slot) |
|---|---|---|
| 5 minutes | 5-7 slides | 550 words |
| 10 minutes | 9-12 slides | 1,105 words |
| 15 minutes | 12-17 slides | 1,655 words |
| 20 minutes | 17-22 slides | 2,210 words |
| 30 minutes | 22-32 slides | 3,315 words |
Pricing: per slide for the deck, per speaking minute for the script
As a powerpoint presentation writing service and a speech writing service in one order, pricing runs on two different units, because a slide and a spoken minute are not the same unit of work. You can buy powerpoint presentation slides alone, buy the script alone, or order both together.
Deck-only, script-only, or both
The deck is $12.99 per slide, speaker notes included at no extra charge. If you searched pay someone to do my powerpoint presentation and only need the visuals, order the deck alone. The script prices at $0.12 per word, roughly 130 words per minute of stage time × $0.12 = $15.60 per minute. Worked example: a 12-slide deck for a 10-minute talk plus a 1,100-word script comes to 12 × $12.99 = $155.88 for the deck and 1,100 × $0.12 = $132.00 for the script, $287.88 total. If what you actually need is the paper behind the talk, see term paper help instead. If the talk is built on a longer paper rather than a single case or dataset, that paper is priced separately through the custom research paper writing service. For a fully annotated example of the paper structure behind a longer academic talk, see annotated research paper examples.
Design tier: your template, our template, or custom
Three design options run at the same $12.99-per-slide rate: your institution's official template, a clean built-in default template, or a custom design tier built to a short brief — a color palette, a mood reference, a deck you like. Custom design is a real, staffed option.
Rush pricing and the same-day floor
Rush orders under 12 hours add 40% to the base rate. The same-day floor for anything past 10 to 12 slides is closer to 6 hours once design and proofreading are accounted for, not a universal "3 hours" claim.
Design, templates and accessibility
Design is not a skin added at the end here; it is graded, and it has numbers attached to it.
Using your institution's official template
Send your department's official slide template — most US programs distribute one as a .pptx or Google Slides file — and the deck is built inside it, matched font for font. Files deliver in Microsoft PowerPoint, Google Slides, and Apple Keynote formats; Canva and Prezi builds are available on request.
Charts, tables and image licensing
Charts are rebuilt as native, editable objects, not pasted-in screenshots. Tables are re-set for slide legibility, and every image is licensed stock, Creative Commons with attribution, or drawn from your own supplied data — never hotlinked.
A text-dense student slide rebuilt for grading
Before
"Photosynthesis is a process used by plants, algae, and some bacteria to convert light energy into chemical energy through a series of reactions. Chlorophyll absorbs light in the red and blue wavelengths. The Calvin cycle uses ATP and NADPH produced in the light-dependent reactions to fix carbon dioxide into glucose, in the chloroplasts of plant cells, forming the base of most food chains."
After
Photosynthesis: light in, glucose out
- Chlorophyll absorbs red and blue light in the chloroplast
- Light reactions produce ATP + NADPH
- Calvin cycle fixes CO₂ into glucose using that ATP + NADPH
- Base of nearly every food chain on Earth
What changed
- One dense sentence became four labeled lines, scannable in under 8 seconds
- The mechanism is now a visible sequence, not buried in prose
- The moved explanatory detail goes into the speaker notes, not the slide
Contrast, font size and alt text for graded accessibility marks
Accessibility is a real rubric line in many US courses: 24-point minimum for body text, 32-point or larger for headings, and a contrast ratio of at least 4.5:1 between text and background.
- Body text at 24pt minimum, headings at 32pt or larger
- Text-to-background contrast of at least 4.5:1 on every slide
- Alt text written for every chart, photo, and diagram
- No more than 6 lines of body text per slide
- Color is never the only way information is coded
- PDF handout exported with a tagged reading order
Defenses, pitches, seminars and poster sessions
Four formats account for most of the graded talks we build decks and scripts for, and each has its own timing and its own grading trap.
Thesis and dissertation defense decks
A thesis defense usually runs 20 to 40 minutes plus committee questions. The methods slide is where committees push hardest — every claimed result needs a slide showing how it was produced, not just what it was.
Business pitch and capstone presentations
A pitch or capstone deck runs 5 to 15 minutes and is judged on the recommendation slide as much as the analysis behind it. If yours is built on a case study, see the case study behind the deck written first — the deck follows the analysis, not the other way around.
Nursing and clinical case presentations
Clinical case presentations follow a fixed order — history, assessment, intervention, outcome — and every detail is de-identified before it reaches a slide: no patient name, room number, or identifying date. Where the presentation follows a full case study writing services document rather than a single patient scenario, build the deck from that finished analysis instead.
Conference poster sessions
A poster session is one oversized slide, read standing up from four feet away, so it needs larger type and fewer words than any classroom talk. A poster built from a dataset belongs with lab and technical reports — see how a dataset becomes the results panel.
AI speech writing vs a human speechwriter
Ai speech writing is a fair first step and a poor last one. A generative tool has no access to your course readings or your rubric, so it defaults to generic transitions and a register written for anyone, not for your assignment. It cannot rehearse timing against your voice or tell you your third slide runs 40 seconds long because the sentence is too dense to say aloud. Where it earns its keep is brainstorming a rough structure or a first pass at section headers. Treat that output as a draft to hand a human writer, not a script to memorize — a TED talk sounds rehearsed because a person timed it against their own delivery.

Send your outline for a deck and script quote
Tell us your slot length, your slide-count target, and whether you need the deck, the script, or both. Pricing comes back itemized by slide and by word.
Speech and slide deck FAQ
How much should I charge to create a PowerPoint presentation?
If you are pricing your own freelance work, per-slide rates in the US market typically run $8 to $20 depending on design complexity and whether speaker notes are included. Our speech writing service prices at $12.99 per slide with notes included.
Do you write the speaker notes as well as the slides?
Yes, on every order — presenter-view notes are not an add-on. Anyone searching for a speech writer online expecting notes as an afterthought will find them written in by default, keyed to the same numbering as the slides.
Can you match my university's slide template?
Yes. Send the official .pptx, Google Slides link, or PDF style guide your department distributes, and the deck is built inside it, font for font and color for color.
Can you write a speech I can actually memorise?
Yes — the script is written in spoken sentences, not written-to-be-read prose, with delivery cues marked for pause, emphasis, and slide clicks, which is what makes it possible to rehearse rather than just read aloud.
Can I get a recorded voiceover for my presentation?
Yes, recorded narration is available as an add-on. Request it when you place your order and it is quoted against your final script length and the run time you need.
