Organizing Your Speech CHAPTER 13 Communication Embracing Difference

Organizing Your Speech CHAPTER 13 Communication: Embracing Difference Dunn & Goodnight

Organizing Your Ideas • Causal Order – Establishes a cause-and-effect relationship. • Problem Solution – Identifies a conflict then offers a course of action to correct it. • Spatial Order – Arranges points based on the relationship of their positions. • Time Order – Arranges ideas based on a chronological framework. • Topic Order – Involves breaking down main points into smaller points.

The Body • Coordinate Points – The major ideas in a speech that grow out of thesis statement. • Subordinate Points – Minor points that grow out of the major ideas.

The Introductions create a “need to know” for the audience Objectives include: • Capture audiences attention with attention getter – – Narrative Startling Statement Rhetorical Question Quotation • Establish Credibility • Communicate nature of your topic

The Conclusion Function: • Drawing your speech to an end • Reiterating the central theme of your presentation Closing Technique: • Summation

Transitions provide a link between the main parts of your speech 1. Transitional Preview – Used after the introduction to show what is to come. 2. Transitional Summary – Used before the summary to recap all coordinate points. 3. Signposts – Helps audience know where they are in the speech.

Preparing a Speech Outline There are two types of outlines to use: • Full-Sentence (page 264) • Key-Phrase (page 267)