Organizing Your Speech | Course Paper

Joshua Gunn | Speech Craft, Second Edition

Organizing Your Speech

•Organizational styles

•Memory

It’s easier to hook an audience

with a clearly organized speech.

Memory: Three Is a Magic Number

•Limited capacity without notes

Speech Overview: On Purposes and Points

•Speech purpose

•What the speech is to accomplish

•Thesis statement

•What you actually say to the audience about your topic and purpose

•Main points

•The 3 to 5 main points that support your thesis

Patterning Your Main Points

•Presentation order

•Six basic patterns

•Spatial

•Temporal