COMM 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Microsoft Powerpoint, Thesis Statement
28 Dec 2016
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To effectively organize your speech you should first: focus on your audience when organizing your speech, refine the specific purpose, create a clear thesis statement. Organize the body of the speech before tackling the introduction or conclusion. Remember that: two to five focused main points should fully develop the thesis statement, use parallel structure, simplicity, and balance, develop main points by using subpoints, supporting points, and further support. Organize the speech body in one of several patterns: time, extended narrative, spatial, categorical, problem-solution, stock issues, refutational, causal, motivated sequence, wave, spiral, star, call and response. Chapter 8: organizing your message: return to the opening theme, a formal outline is sometimes required of beginning speakers. Many instructors prefer students to use standard outline notation and write a complete-sentence outline. Speaker"s notes, usually placed on small cards, can be used when presenting the speech, as can overhead transparencies or powerpoint slides.
