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    Organizing Your Speech

    Patrick Pastor
    CMST 220: Introduction to Public Speaking
    4/28/2014

    Intro: Effective Public Speaking


    Effective

    public speaking

    Speaker is able to keep


    audiences attention
    Audience can understand
    and remember the
    speakers message
    Effective

    speech =
    organized speech

    Intro: Organizing Your


    Speech
    Organize

    main ideas
    Incorporate and
    organize supporting
    material
    Signpoststransitions between
    ideas

    Main Ideas
    Five

    Organizational Patterns

    Chronological
    Topical
    Spatial
    Cause-Effect
    Problem-Solution

    Chronological Organization
    Chronological

    Organization
    Can be either
    forward or
    backward in time
    Recency principle:
    event discussed
    last usually
    remembered best

    Topical Organization
    Central

    idea has natural divisions


    Emphasizing one point over
    others
    Recency
    Primacy: most important point first
    Complexity

    Other Methods of Organization


    Spatial

    Organization
    Cause and Effect
    Cause Effect (Emphasize effects)
    Effect Cause (Emphasize causes)
    Problem-Solution

    Subdividing Main Ideas


    Can

    arrange main ideas


    according to one pattern,
    subpoints according another
    Five organizational patterns for
    main ideas also apply to
    subpoints

    Supporting Material
    Flesh

    out your
    speech
    Incorporate
    supporting
    material
    Organize
    supporting
    material

    Organizing Supporting Material


    Primacy
    Recency
    Specificity
    Complexity
    Soft

    to hard evidence

    Signposts
    Words

    or
    gestures that
    help ideas flow
    Relationships
    between ideas
    Emphasis through
    repetition

    Signposts: Previews
    Ensure

    audience anticipates and


    remembers important points
    Preview statement
    Tell audience what you will tell
    them
    Internal

    previews

    Signposts: Summaries
    Ensure

    audience understanding
    and retention through additional
    exposure to speakers ideas
    Final summary
    Tell them what you told them
    Internal

    summaries

    Signposts: Transitions
    Indicate

    that speaker is finished


    with one idea and is moving on to
    the next
    Nonverbal Transitions
    Verbal Transitions

    Signposts: Transitions
    Verbal

    transitions

    Repetition
    Transitional words/phrases
    Enumeration
    Internal previews and summaries

    Conclusion
    Effective

    speech = organized

    speech
    Organization

    Main ideas
    Subpoints
    Supporting Material
    Signposts

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