Organizing Your Speech

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Organizing YourSpeech

• Chapter 9

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Organization

• Speech structure
• The systematic arrangement of ideas into a
  coherent whole
• Makes speeches listenable

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Main points

• Give speech focus
• Most important, comprehensive ideas
• Help decide information to include leave out
• Overarching themes or subjects

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Organizing Process

• Identify main points
• Limit number of points (2-4)
• Order main points

Practice identifying main points in Interactive
Activity 9.1 Choosing Main Points at the
Invitation to Public Speaking website.
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Organizational Patterns

• Chronological
• Spatial
• Problem-and-solution
• Causal
• Topical

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Preparing Main Points

• Separate main points
• Word main points consistently
• Balance main points

Reword main points parallel in Web Link 9.1
Parallel Form at the Invitation to Public
Speaking website.
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Connectives

• Words phrases used to link ideas in a speech

From the U.S. Department of Transportation
Federal Highway Administration
http//www.fhwa.dot.gov/eihd/2bluewb.htm
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Transitions

• Phrases that indicate one point is finished
  speaker is moving on

List of connectives at Web Link 9.2 Transition
Words and Phrases at the Invitation to Public
Speaking website.
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Internal Preview

• Statement in body of speech that details what
  discussed next

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Internal Summary

• Opposite of internal preview
• Statement in body of speech that summarizes a
  point already discussed

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Signpost

• Simple word or statement
• Lets audience know where you are in speech
• Indicates important idea

Visual Advantage Signs by Design
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t20Signs.jpg
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Citing Sources

• Adds credibility to ideas
• Enhances speaker credibility
• Is ethical

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Rules for Citing Sources

• Give credit to others
• Give specific information about source
• Deliver all information accurately