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SPEECH ORGANIZATION - Coggle Diagram
SPEECH ORGANIZATION
PREPARATION
Decide on the topic of your speech
What do you want to talk about? What do you have to talk about?
Know the purpose of your speech
What are you trying to accomplish?
Is it to persuade, inform, demonstrate, entertain, welcome, educate, inspire, entertain, argue a point? Or is it a combination of these?
Set the tone and structure
Is there a particular action you want people to take as a result of listening to you?
Know the audience
Who and where are you giving your speech?
Decide on language, some concepts and ideas to refine your topic to suit them
Think what aspects of the topic would benefit them
Know the length
What is the occasion of your speech?
Try not to overwhelm or underwhelm your audience
Practice, practice, practice
Revision and practice will make your speech the very best it can be
Rehearsal helps you expose and iron out glitches before you find them out the hard way - in front of your audience
STRUCTURE
Body
Transition or link between introduction and body (This is the link between your introduction and the main body of your speech. How will you tie them together?)
main ideas with supporting ideas
examples and details
Main Idea 1 - Supporting ideas - Details and examples - Visuals or props - Transition to...
Main Idea 2 - Supporting ideas - Details and examples - Visuals or props - Transition to...
Main Idea 3 - Supporting ideas - Details and examples - Visuals or props - Transition to...
Introduction
Defining your thesis statement: A summary of what your speech is about
Establishing your credibility: This segment establishes your right to speak on the topic. It cites your qualification or expertise.
Opening greeting and attention getter: How are you going to greet your audience, grab their attention and compel them to listen?
You could use a rhetorical question, a startling statistic, a quotation or a humorous one-liner. To be effective it must be related to your topic and apt for your audience.
An overview and the benefit to the audience: This is a brief outline of the main points you are going to cover. What's in your speech for your audience? Why will they want to hear what you've got to tell them? Be specific. Tell them.
Conclusion
Summary of main points: These are the main points you covered in the body of your speech.
Re-statement of thesis statement:Use the statement from your introduction to reinforce your message.
Re-statement of benefit to audience: Remind the audience of the benefits they'll receive through carrying out whatever your propose. Again this comes from your introduction.
Closer or call to action: This is your final sentence.
TIPS
A simple, or basic, speech outline follows that advice
'Tell them what you're going to tell them' becomes your introduction
'Tell them' forms the body
'Tell them what you told them' is your conclusion
Organizational structure
CAUSE EFFECT - Because event 'A' happened, event 'B' occurred.
PROBLEM SOLUTION - The problem is 'X'. The answer is 'Y'.
LOGICAL - This pattern suits a broad topic which can be broken down into naturally occurring sub-topics.
SPATIAL OR GEOGRAPHIC - Use this pattern for topics dealing with physical spaces.
TIME OR CHRONOLOGICAL/ SEQUENTIAL - These are either historical topics or demonstration speeches. The foundation of both is an ordered sequence of events.
ADVANTAGE AND DISADVANTAGE - Use this pattern to examine the range of positive and negative aspects of an idea or event.
PERFECT techniques
Personal anecdote
Emotive language
Rhetorical Questions/Devices
Facts/Statistics - about University
Exaggeration
Comparison
Tone/Rule of Three