Author: the Discursos editorial desk
Every text on Discursos.co carries the same byline: “By Discursos”. This page explains who is behind that byline and how the content you read is produced.
The “Discursos” byline
Discursos is not one person's pen name; it is the byline of the Discursos editorial desk — the site's own editorial team. We publish under a single byline because every text goes through the same drafting and review process. Responsibility for what is published belongs to the desk as a whole, not to an individual author.
What the desk does
The Discursos editorial desk writes every speech example from scratch, drafts the step-by-step guides that come with them, and prepares the analyses in the famous-speeches section. Before publishing, each example is read aloud to check that it sounds natural when delivered. The historical facts in the analyses are checked against the most widely reproduced versions of each text.
In our experience, the read-aloud pass catches what silent reading misses. Our rule of thumb is simple: a line that cannot be said in one breath — about 20 words or fewer is our working limit for a single sentence — gets rewritten before anything is published.
What the desk covers
The Discursos editorial desk maintains 18 guides and analyses in Spanish: 8 by occasion, 5 academic, 3 on famous speeches, the templates guide and the by-occasion index. The same 18 guides and analyses exist in English. Each guide combines an original example, an explanation of how it is built, and answers to the questions most often asked by people who have to speak in public.
Corrections and contact
If you find an error on any page or want to suggest a topic, write to us from the contact page. And if you want to learn more about the project, visit the about us page.