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ORGANIZATION
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How Do We Organize
We want to avoid making our audience frustrated
or have them stop listening.
We prevent this by organizing our speech in a way
that makes sense to the topic and by having lots of
transitions.
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Main Points
The first thing we must do is prepare 3-4 main
points or key ideas. These will become our main
points.
We decide what our main points will be and what
order they go in by picking an organizational
pattern.
This makes up the body of our speech.
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Organizational Patterns
1. Chronological: MP organized by time
Could be by dates, by the order things must be done,
etc.
2. Difficulty: MP organized by level of difficulty
3. Spatial: MP organized by space
Could be geographical, physical structure, etc.
4. Causal (logical): MP organized by cause andeffect
5. Topical: main points are organized by topic
This is one of the most common and easiest patterns.
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Patterns Cont’d
5. Problem/Solution: MP organized by addressing a
problem and how to solve that problem
Need/Plan: a variation of Problem/Solution
Need/Problem plan that meets the need Plan/Solution how the plan works
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Main Points Developed
The heart of your presentation comes in all the
information within the main points.
You organize your speech into 3-4 main points and
then you elaborate with supporting points and sub-points in outline format.
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Transitions
The key to letting your audience know when you are
moving from one topic to the next are transitions.
These are statements that indicate the topic change.
I will ask you to use a chronological or directional
transition. Here you summarize your last point and
preview you next point.
Example: Now that we’ve covered the houses inMarshall County, let’s move on and look at the condos
available.
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Planning the Introduction
Functions of the Introduction Securing attention – “Attention Getter”
This is a sentence or more that captures the audiences’ attention.
There are many ways to capture your audience including direct questions,shocking or interesting facts/statistics, stories, promises of something
beneficial, humor, and quotes Orientation – “Setting the stage”
Providing any necessary information so the audience will understand thebody of the speech Providing background information, definitions, timeline info
Clarifies your central idea and purpose What exactly will you be talking about
What are you seeking from your audience
At minimum, a preview of your main body
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Doing so will ensure you set yourself up for successful delivery of meat (body) ofyour speech!
Include all of these for a “top notch” introduction.
To Recap:
1. Secure Attention
2. Establish goodwill and credibility
3. Assure a fair hearing
4. Orient your audience to the subject5. Make your central idea and
purpose clear
6. Offer a preview
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Common Introduction Pitfalls
• False Starts
• Unnecessary
Apologies
• Overstatement
• Overtly shocking, offensive,
emotional language or
examples
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Aristotle suggested that the major purpose of
the conclusion is to help the memory.
Planning the Conclusion
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Functions of the Conclusion
A good conclusion offers:
Review
Reinforcement
Call to actionSometimes we add:
Visualization
Restatement
Impression
Three Major Functions:1. Review the central idea (tell ‘em what
you told ‘em)
2. Reinforce belief or action
desired (what do you want them to do?)
3. End with impact and impress
when appropriate
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Common Conclusion Pitfalls
Deprecation of Effort
Overamplification Prolonged Close
OWN it!
Simple restatement ofpoints already
covered
Short Concise andSweet
Avoid doing this: Instead do this: